WhatsApp problems

[Maurellius]

I recently switched from an iPhone to a Samsung galaxy s10e and I seem to be having some problems in setting up my WhatsApp like I had it on my iPhone.

Maybe you guys could help.

First of all I would like to know it it's possible to just get the red round notification icon on my WhatsApp app button and not get the drop down notification on top that pops up whenever I'm using the phone.

Then I'm also having trouble downloading the media I choose to keep. To be clear. I don't want WhatsApp to download all the multimedia into my gallery. I like it to be inky on the app except the things I think are worth keeping. Which I can find a way to select and keep in the gallery.

Two simple things that were very simple to solve on iphone.

 

[ocnbrze]

I recently switched from an iPhone to a Samsung galaxy s10e and I seem to be having some problems in setting up my WhatsApp like I had it on my iPhone.

Maybe you guys could help.

First of all I would like to know it it's possible to just get the red round notification icon on my WhatsApp app button and not get the drop down notification on top that pops up whenever I'm using the phone.

Then I'm also having trouble downloading the media I choose to keep. To be clear. I don't want WhatsApp to download all the multimedia into my gallery. I like it to be inky on the app except the things I think are worth keeping. Which I can find a way to select and keep in the gallery.

Two simple things that were very simple to solve on iphone.

whatsapp app button? do you mean the icon on your screen? i'm not exactly sure i understand what you are talking about. can you take a screenshot and post it here?

"i like it to be inky" not sure what that means.

 

[Hadron]

Notification badges are a feature of the "launcher", which is the app that produces the desktops and app drawer. Recent Android versions include "notification badge" support that basically shows when you have a notification, and which many manufacturers use in their launchers. With this you cannot do what you want, since if you swipe the notification away (or turn it off) the badge disappears.

You may be able to do it using a different launcher. Nova launcher used to have its own add-on for notification badges, called TeslaUnread. That is no longer available in the Play Store but is still supported if you have it, so if you can find it at apkmirror.com (a safe app download site) you should still be able to use it. For this you need to use Nova launcher, and you need to choose TeslaUnread in Nova's settings as the provider for notification badges/unread counts, but with TeslaUnread the badges remain after notifications are swiped away. I've not tried turning notifications off for an app and seeing whether it still works, but it might.

On the other question, nothing actually downloads into the Gallery. The Gallery is an app that can display images stored in different places on the phone, but doesn't actually store any of the images itself. WhatsApp stores its media in its own directory, so what you are really asking is how you can stop the Gallery from showing these as well. The answer to that will be to look in the Gallery app's settings. If the Gallery app doesn't let you control what folders it will display (it is a Samsung app and I don't have a Samsung, so don't know its settings) your options are to ignore it or use a different gallery app which does what you want.

This is one of my key principles with Android: if the built-in app doesn't do what you want, there will be alternatives. You don't have to put up with an app that doesn't meet your needs just because that is the one the manufacturer included.

Incidentally I assume "inky" was an autocorrect error (mistype "only" as "inly" and the autocorrect algorithm favours the first letter and so changes the third).