Set Custom Chat Background in WhatsApp on Microsoft Lumia 535
Edited by Thor, Rushell, Jen M
Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to set a background for the chat screen in the WhatsApp messaging application when using a Microsoft Lumia 535.
Steps
- 1To get started, press the power button located on the right-hand side of the phone.
- 2Swipe up from the bottom to reveal the Home screen.Once activated, you'll see the lock screen.
- 3Mine is located at the bottom. As you can see, it is a blue tile with a symbol of a phone inside a speech bubble.We need to find the WhatsApp tile.
- 4From there, you can scroll down and find WhatsApp.If you do not have the WhatsApp tile pinned to your Home screen, you can swipe from right to left to open the App menu.
- 5Wherever you have it, tap to open it.
- 6We now need to press the ellipsis, which is the three dots in a line at the bottom right corner of your screen.
- 7At the bottom of that menu, tap on settings.This will bring up another menu.
- 8Next, we need to go to chat settings, so tap on that.
- 9Under chat settings, tap on default background.
- 10The message at the top says, "You can set a default background for your chats." We can look in the background gallery. We can take a photo. We can choose from albums, or we can search the web for an image.We have several options for setting our background.
- 11These are backgrounds that are already built into the WhatsApp application.Tapping on background gallery will bring up a number of options from which to choose.
- 12Press one of the images to select it.
- 13The first one says, "Swipe right to change background," and below that, "Swipe left to change background." Therefore, swipe to the left or right to scroll through the backgrounds and see them as they will appear on the screen.The background image you chose will appear on your screen along with two messages.
- 14Now, we have set the default background for our chats.Once you find a background you like, press the check mark directly under the background at the bottom of the screen.
- 15We can also choose a photo we have already taken from our albums.If we press the option to take a photo, it will bring up the camera and allow us to take a photo.
- 16Tap on choose from albums, and this will take us into the phone and allow us to choose one of our own photos.
- 17If we press that, it will bring up a search box. Let's search for sunset, so type in that.Alternatively, we can search the web.
- 18This will bring up a collection of images related to our search term.Now press the right-facing arrow at the bottom right corner of the screen.
- 19Press on an image to choose it.It brought up some very beautiful sunsets, so let's choose one we like.
- 20Now, the image becomes our background.
- 21We can drag the image around on the screen to move it.
- 22Move your fingers out to zoom in, and pinch them together to zoom out.We can also pinch the screen with our thumb and forefinger to zoom in or out on the image.
- 23When you are happy with how the background looks, tap the check mark at the bottom.
- 24We also have the option to remove images by pressing remove.
- 25Continue pressing this left arrow until you get to the chats screen.Tap on the left arrow at the bottom left of the screen to go back.
- 26Tap on a chat to enter it.
- 27This will be our default background, and it will be featured in all of our chats.Now, you can see that our chat has the background we just set.
- 28If you have any questions or suggestions about this video or about the application itself, then please leave them in the comment section below.This concludes our tutorial on how to set a background for the chat screens in the WhatsApp messaging application when using a Microsoft Lumia 535.
Video: Set Custom Chat Background in WhatsApp on Microsoft Lumia 535
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