Changing the sound of WhatsApp notifications can be done and is super easy. It can be customized with any song or sound you have on your phone. The app supports customizing notification tones for calls, messages and groups. Maybe you already knew this, but what maybe you don't is that you can put an audio that you have received on WhatsApp as a notification tone. How is it done? In the following paragraphs we explain.
How to put a WhatsApp audio as a notification tone
Through WhatsApp we send and receive text messages and share multimedia content such as images, gifts and videos. Especially, WhatsApp has been characterized by popular messages or voice notes. Millions of people around the world enjoy this service.
These voice audios that we send via WhatsApp can not only be used to share information with our contacts, but they can also be used for other purposes. For example, you can use a WhatsApp audio that has been sent to you as a notification tone. For that, the audio must be adjusted to use it as main tone to know when we receive messages. The method to adjust that audio requires an external app, since
WhatsApp does not support the audio format as a notification tone. We are going to need convert audio to MP3 format with this external app and thus use it as a tone.
Convert WhatsApp audio to MP3
You can find this app in the Play Store and it is called audio converter. Download and install that app on your mobile.
When you have the app installed, open it and then click on the yellow Files name button located in the lower left corner of the screen. The folder with all your media files will open.
Find the WhatsApp folder and choose the audio what do you want convert to MP3. Upload the audio to the app and click Next to start the conversion.
A menu will open where you will be able to choose the format. By default, the format that the app shows you is MP3. It has many more formats, but we're going to leave it like that.
We recommend that you modify the file name with a shorter and more suitable name that you can locate more easily.
Then hit Convert, the yellow button placed in the upper right corner of the screen. Finally, click Continue for the audio to be converted to MP3.
Now, move the audio to the notifications folder within the file manager on your device. Go to the location where you saved the audio. Then copy or move the audio file to the folder Notifications located within the device's internal storage.
Set audio as notification tone in WhatsApp
It's time to put the audio as a notification tone on WhatsApp. Open WhatsApp and go to Settings o Settings (almost always accessed from the three dots icon at the top right).
Enter the section Notifications. In this section you can select the corresponding option to modify the respective tone, as you want for Messages, Group Notifications or Calls.
When you enter to modify the tone, a message should appear list with available tones. Find the audio you saved in the “Notifications” folder and select it.
You can confirm that the tone was indeed modified if you ask someone for help to send you a message or notification on WhatsApp and see if it is working correctly.