Type and Search Emojis With a Keyboard
Instant messaging feels incomplete without emojis. But it takes forever to change from the keyboard to the mouse, click the emoji icon next to the text box, and then find the right emoji. Thankfully, there’s a faster WhatsApp Web trick.
While in the regular text box, type : (colon) followed by the first two letters of the emotion you want to express. You will get a prompt of matching emojis that change with each letter you type.
Use the keyboard’s arrow keys to switch back and forth between the emojis displayed. Press Enter to accept.
You can also access the emojis, stickers, and GIFs buttons by pressing Shift + Tab in any chat window. This will highlight the emoji icon, so press Enter to bring up the emojis, stickers, and GIFs menu. Press Tab and Shift + Tab to cycle back and forth through the three choices. Navigate within their menu with the arrow keys.
It’s a much faster way to type, and it will help if you familiarize yourself with the emoji to English dictionary.
Auto-Change Emoticons to Emojis (or Not)
Some emojis don’t need the colon-and-type trick above because one of the best features of WhatsApp number is to auto-convert them from the classic text emoticons. A helpful redditor extracted the full list of auto-converted emoticons pictured above.
Again, learning these WhatsApp Web shortcuts for the keyboard will make your typing much faster if you practice them regularly.
That said, this auto-conversion can be annoying for some people, so there’s an easy fix to keep them as emoticons. All you need is a userscript called WhatsApp Emoticon Preserver.
- Install Tampermonkey, a cross-platform userscript manager, on your browser of choice.
- Go to WhatsApp Emoticon Preserver.
- Click the blue Install button.
- Refresh the WhatsApp Web tab in your browser.
Note that while this will show emoticon characters on your screen, the recipient will still see them as emojis.
Use Multiple WhatsApp Accounts on the Same PC
Some people have two phones with separate WhatsApp accounts, or maybe you use a dual-SIM phone with multiple WhatsApp apps. If you want to run two WhatsApp Web accounts on your computer, you can’t just open two tabs in Chrome and sign in separately.
The best WhatsApp Web trick to use multiple accounts is to open an incognito window or different browser. So if you have one account signed in to Chrome, start a new window in Incognito Mode. Alternatively, you can fire up a second browser and go to B to B Database WhatsApp Web through that. Log in as you normally would, using your other account to read the QR code.
In Incognito Mode, you can use WhatsApp Web for an hour before it automatically logs you out.
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