Tuesday, May 26, 2020

How to Customise Ringtones For Contacts and Groups in WhatsApp


  • The  Applications or apps for short are way of bringing power of laptops and PC in your handheld devices called as mobiles.
  • The number of features available makes it all but impossible to remeber and exploit the apps to fullest capabilities.
  • #WhatsApp is a power social media app that lets all users to create groups of 255 odd like minded people with common interests or keep friends and families together in this ultra-fast life. 
A question was asked whether one can assign a separate ringtones for notifications in WhatsApp Ringtones, both for calls and messages individually and group wise

The answer is YES

For Android Phones Only 

Assigning ringtone to a group

  • Open WhatsApp 
  • Select/tap on three vertical dots (top left corner of screen) on the group you want to assign a Ringtone
  • Select/tap on "Group info"
  • Select/tap on "Custom notification"
  • Tick custom notification
  • Tap on "Notification Tone". A  drop down list of ring tones available is displayed for you to select. You can add a  ringtone if you want to set personal one.
  • Press OK

Assigning ringtone to a Contact

  • Open WhatsApp 
  • Select/tap on three vertical dots (top left corner of screen) on the group 
  • Select/tap on "Group info"
  • Scroll down the member list and select contact (say "ABC") you want to assign a specific ringtone
  • Select/tap "view ABC"
  • Select/tap on "Custom notification"
  • Tick custom notification
  • Tap on "Notification Tone". A  drop down list of ring tones available is displayed for you to select. You can add a  ringtone if you want to set personal one.
  • Press OK

No comments:

Post a Comment