People are only just realizing this sneaky tip to change WhatsApp text

Nuance in text messages is often lost… the cold silence after sending, the fear, the regret. Did they think you were serious?

Fortunately, armed with these nifty WhatsApp tricks, you’ll soon be texting with confidence that your true intent will be correctly interpreted.

TikToker Niall Quinn shared the tricks, claiming that users “never knew they existed.”

Under his @mottomarketing account, Quinn revealed three easy ways to spice up your posts.

In the now-viral video, Quinn demonstrated for the first time how users can make their text bold.

“Put an asterisk on both sides to make it bold,” he explained simply.

The creator then revealed that users can cross out their text, he explained: “Put a squiggly line on either side to draw through.”

Finally, he explained that users can put underscores on either side of the text to make it italic.

The video has since been viewed more than three million times and has received more than 22,000 saves from likely WhatsApp users ready to try the trick.

However, users were divided on whether the hack was new or not, with some claiming it was “old news.”

The TikToker, Niall Quinn, posted the texting trick on his account and revealed how to cross out your messages by putting a squiggle before and after your text

The TikToker also showed its followers how to quickly italicize text, meaning simply put the underscore before and after your text

“Why is that a hack?” one questioned.

Another added: “You didn’t just find this out, this has been a thing for years.”

But others were thankful for the shared method anyway, saying the codes were “the best” and “brilliant.”

The content creator often uploads technology hacks and even shared other WhatsApp tricks.

He shared advice on how users can make sure the photos they send are of high quality, saying, “Go to settings, then select Storage & data, scroll down to Media upload quality and click Best quality.”

Quinn also revealed how they can make their encrypted messages even more personal by enabling a lock feature.

“Go to privacy, then Screen lock, enable Require Face ID,” he explained.

Quinn’s efforts come as thousands of users were left in limbo last week after a massive outage.

DownDetector, a site that monitors online problems, received a deluge of problem reports, but the outage was over in about an hour.

WhatsApp has an estimated monthly active user base of 2.7 billion people, but it’s not clear how many were affected by the outage.