For the thousands of us who use WhatsApp daily, nay hourly, the app has become a pseudo repository for the digital lives. It has addresses our friends texted us, meeting dates, social plans, essential notices from our bosses or coworkers, pictures of our kids or relatives, cute audio blurbs from our loved ones, therefore much more. Even though app includes a search function, that isn’t the perfect way to look for a specific message: you may not remember the exact words used or you may simply be buying media file that can not be found utilizing the search function.


Starring those important messages makes plenty of sense and I’m astonished I never thought just how much this feature could be of use until I started deploying it in today’s update. Version 2. 12. 337 of WhatsApp introduced the choice, then was quickly followed by what must be a little bug fix in version 2. 12. 338.


In short, message starring works like you are expecting it to. Tap and hold on any message(s) and you will see a new star icon in the app’s toolbar. Tap that and a little star appears at the bottom of the message, next to the timestamp. To eliminate it, tap and hold again and you will get a crossed star icon that manages it.


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Starred messages are accessible from the app’s overflow menu. They show up in a scrollable timeline with the sender’s name, date, and the full content. That also applies to media files of most kinds: images, videos, and audio. You can unstar messages from this view too.


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The feature was put into the iOS counterpart of WhatsApp in regards to a month ago, so it’s just a little late arriving at Android. Nonetheless it seems to be working well even as a beta iteration. Until it graduates to the Play Store’s stable version, you’ll have to by hand grab the APK in order to enjoy it.


  • Thanks:

  • Moshe E,

  • +Glenn Correa,

  • Fabian LaRose,

  • and everyone who sent this in