How many times have you tried to find a specific message in your massive WhatsApp chat log? In reality, searching WhatsApp messages is just a useful feature that can help you in some situations. But you need to know the basics of searching in order to find everything you want quickly and easily. The search tool in WhatsApp chat will not only help you find texts, but also help you search for media and documents shared with your contacts.
So if you’ve wasted time scrolling back through your WhatsApp chat log trying to find a specific message, picture, or link, you’ll find the search tool and its various options more convenient. In fact, there are several ways to search in WhatsApp so you can find what you’re looking for quickly in a few seconds.
Here we review all the search methods in WhatsApp chats to find messages, media, and links.
To start the search, open the WhatsApp app> and click on the search icon (magnifying glass) in the top corner> from here, you can type a keyword or phrase or filter the search by media type. In addition to helping you find images and videos, advanced search can also help you identify links, GIFs, audio, and even documents from within your chats. This is great if you don’t know exactly where the message is, but it doesn’t give you much context for the results.
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The previous method executes a “general” search, but the WhatsApp application also includes a “specific” search, meaning that you can find a specific word or phrase within a specific chat. To use the search feature in the chat itself, just open the WhatsApp chat you want to search in, then click on the icon (≡) in the top corner> from here, select search and type the text you are looking for. If there are multiple search results you chose, you can scroll through them by clicking the up and down arrows next to the search bar until you find what you want.
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As we know, the search feature in the chat searches through keywords, but this may make it difficult to find media, documents, or links that do not have clear labels or if they contain vague file names or URLs. So, in order to view all the media, documents, and links shared in a specific chat, go to the icon (≡) in the top corner. But instead of pressing search, click on the “Media and Links and Documents” option. From here, you will be able to see all the images, videos, links, and documents shared in the chat you chose.
