{"id":26283,"date":"2016-04-01T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=26283"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:49:29","slug":"whatsapp-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/whatsapp-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Bold, Italic and Strikethrough Text in WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formatting finally comes to WhatsApp Messenger. You can now type your replies in <strong>bold<\/strong>, <em>italic<\/em> or even <strike>strikethrough<\/strike> your replies to friends. If you have updated to the latest WhatsApp version, you probably can see something like this:<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/whatsapp-formatting\/wa-formatting.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" alt=\"whatsapp formatting\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/whatsapp-tips-tricks\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: 20 WhatsApp Tips & Tricks\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 WhatsApp Tips & Tricks<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/whatsapp-tips-tricks.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-19367 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/whatsapp-tips-tricks.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">20 WhatsApp Tips & Tricks<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhatsApp has been getting new awesome features to make messaging a breeze for users. While its use is...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Bold text<\/h3>\n<p>Include asterisks (*) before and after the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> <code>*This is bold.* <\/code><\/p>\n<h3>Italic text<\/h3>\n<p>Include underscore (_) before and after the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> <code>_This is italic._<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Use asterisks before and after the sentence.<\/p>\n<h3>Strikethrough text<\/h3>\n<p>Use tilde (~) before and after the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> <code>~This is strikethrough.~<\/code><\/p>\n<h2>Why is it not working on my Android?<\/h2>\n<p>There are reports by Android users who have updated to the latest WhatsApp version but have yet to see the formatting feature take effect. If you are on version 2.12.556, sorry, no luck, you won\u2019t be seeing this in your WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>If you <strike>must have<\/strike> want this, what you can do is <strong>grab it from APK mirror<\/strong>. The feature, along with a few other features are available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apkmirror.com\/apk\/whatsapp-inc\/whatsapp\/whatsapp-2-12-535-release\/\">2.12.535 version<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apkmirror.com\/apk\/whatsapp-inc\/whatsapp\/whatsapp-2-12-560-release\/\">2.12.560<\/a> version. Also, if you look forward to more new (but which may not be stable yet) features like these, you can sign up to be a beta tester <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/apps\/testing\/com.whatsapp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/tag\/whatsapp-tips\/\">Click here for <strong>more WhatsApp Tips<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formatting finally comes to WhatsApp Messenger. You can now type your replies in bold, italic or even strikethrough your replies to friends. 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