Discover how you can personalize each WhatsApp chat with your own wallpaper.
Despite WhatsApp it does not count with as many customization options as TelegramMeta’s proprietary messaging client lets you set a notification tone for each chat, only receive notifications from a specific chat and even change the wallpaper of each chat.
As this last option is really useful to identify a chat at a glance, we are going to explain, step by step, below: how can you set a custom wallpaper for each chat and how you can return to the default background that the rest of the conversations have.
How to customize the wallpaper of a specific chat
Obviously, the first thing you have to do to put a custom wallpaper in a WhatsApp chat is to enter it. Once inside, you have to click on the button with the three vertical points that is located in the upper right part of the app and touch on the option Wallpaper.
The next step is choose the image you want to place as wallpaper of that chatbeing able to choose between WhatsApp’s own images, which are organized into three collections: Light, Dark and Solid Colors or the photographs taken with your terminal, which are found within the section My pictures.
Once the desired image is selected, open it, click on the button set wallpaper that appears at the bottom, check the option for this chat and click on the button okay to confirm.
In the event that you want to use a custom wallpaper for all your chats, in the previous step you simply have to choose the option For all chats with the light topic and click on the button okay to save the changes.
In this sense, you should know that custom wallpapers are not supported in dark mode and, therefore, if you have this mode activated you can simply adjust brightness of the default dark mode wallpaper.
How to remove a custom wallpaper from a chat
If, for whatever reason, you want to change the custom wallpaper to a different one, you first have to delete the wallpaper that you have previously set and for this you only have to perform the following actions:
- Open the chat whose custom wallpaper you want to delete
- Click on the button with the three vertical dots which is located in the upper right corner
- Tap on the option Wallpaper
- Click on the button Remove custom wallpaper
- Finally click on the option Remove