


Enter the name you want to give this contact, and then you can select add to the home screen. Then in the top right-hand corner of your screen click add and then on the final page, done.On the next page click on the three horizontal dots (.). Select the contact for that you want to create a shortcut.You should see "send a message to xxxx", with all of your contacts. You will see a list of suggested shortcuts, scroll down to the WhatsApp section.Here there is a button for Add Action - click the button.Press the (+) icon, and you will be on the new shortcuts page.You can add new shortcuts using the (+) icon. After you have downloaded Shortcuts, open the app.It still isn't possible to add a contact shortcut to your home screen directly from WhatsApp, instead, you will need to use the Shortcuts app, which can be downloaded from the App Store. How to pin a WhatsApp contact to the home screen on iPhone? Select the contact you'd like to pin to your home screen and tap on the Menu > More > Add Shortcut.

Launch WhatsApp and go to the Chat view.How to create a WhatsApp contact shortcut on Android? This guide will show you how to add a contact shortcut on Android directly from WhatsApp and then show you the work around for iPhone users. It's the technology that just won't die.WhatsApp Messenger enables you to pin contacts with whom you interact the most to the home screen of your smartphone. Still, it managed to stick around for a long time. After a while AIM caught up and even experimented with video and voice chat while ICQ stayed the same for years.Įventually, AOL purchased ICQ and basically put it out to pasture. ICQ still remained relatively popular, but they really sat on their asses over there. Meanwhile, AIM was updated with new features frequently and marketed heavily. ICQ had more features and more users, but it was just easier for a lot of them to use AIM so they could chat with their dopey friends who were still using AOL. Sometimes, you'd sit there in pending approval purgatory wondering if you added the right person with those crazy user id's. Plus, on ICQ you had to receive approval from a user to add them to your buddy list and on AIM you could just add people. It was a total pain in the ass when you wanted to add people to your friend list. ICQ was cool because you could use any name you wanted but the actual user id was an 8 or 9 digit number (mine was 36915037- not sure why I remember that). The cool kids were on ICQ and I think there were very few AOL users willing or able to use a separate chat client.Īnyway, AOL eventually opened up AIM to everyone and people started using it. If I remember correctly, AIM was an AOL subscription exclusive in the beginning so only the dopes on there were using it.
