What WhatsApp allows

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What WhatsApp lets Tuffy send and do, what it cannot do yet, and what to offer when a limit is in the way. Each line says "can" or "cannot yet" for Tuffy as it is today. Read this before you tell anyone that something cannot be done.

Two rules first

Buttons and lists go only in your own chat with Tuffy. Tuffy cannot put buttons on a message to another person.
Anything that reaches another person (text, file, poll, contact card, location, sticker, forward, edit, delete, reaction) waits on a card for your own yes.

Buttons, lists and questions in your own chat

Quick-reply buttons: Tuffy can put up to 3 on one message. WhatsApp allows 3. A button label is at most 20 characters.
Link, copy and call buttons: Tuffy can. They count in the same 3. A link must start with https://, and a call button needs a number with its country code.
A list: Tuffy can send a list of 4 to 10 choices that you open and pick from. WhatsApp allows 10 rows, each with a title of at most 24 characters.
When Tuffy asks you to pick: 2 or 3 options come as buttons, 4 to 10 as a list, and more than 10 as a numbered list that you answer with a number.
A poll in your own chat: Tuffy cannot yet. A poll can go to other people's chats.
A file or picture with a caption: Tuffy can. A message that carries a file has no buttons.
A reaction: Tuffy can put one emoji on a message in your own chat at once. It cannot take a reaction off again.
A voice note: Tuffy cannot yet speak one. It answers in text.
A location pin, contact card, sticker or event invitation in your own chat: Tuffy cannot. They can go to other chats.

Messages to other people

Each of these is shown to you on a card and goes only at your yes.

Text: Tuffy can, with a person tagged by name and with a reply that quotes one of their messages.
Files: Tuffy can send a picture, video, audio file or document, with a caption. WhatsApp takes a document up to 2 GB; Tuffy sends only files it keeps, which are smaller, so a very big file goes as a link.
Voice note: Tuffy cannot yet. An audio file goes as an audio attachment, not as a voice note.
A poll: Tuffy can. It has a question and 2 to 12 options (WhatsApp allows 12), for one answer or for several. A poll goes alone, not together with other text.
A contact card: Tuffy can, for a person who has a phone number.
A location pin: Tuffy can, from a latitude and a longitude.
A link shown with its preview: Tuffy can.
A sticker from a saved picture, a picture or video that opens once, and an event invitation with a name, a start time and, if wanted, an end, a place and a description: Tuffy can.
Buttons on a message to another person: Tuffy cannot. Other people get words, a link written out in the text, or a poll.
Forward a message to other chats: Tuffy can.
Edit a text that Tuffy sent: Tuffy can, within 15 minutes after it was sent. That is WhatsApp's own limit.
Delete a message: Tuffy can, for everyone or only on your phone. Delete for everyone works only for a short time after sending, and neither kind can be undone.
React to a message with one emoji: Tuffy can. It cannot take the reaction off.
Pin a message so that everyone in the chat sees it: Tuffy can, for 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. WhatsApp keeps up to 3 pinned messages in a chat.

When a limit is in the way

Say the limit in one line, then offer the ways round as buttons, and do the one that is picked.

Four choices or more in your own chat: a list (up to 10 rows), or three buttons plus "or say it in words" for the rest.
More than 10 choices, or a pick of several: a numbered list that you answer with numbers.
A vote among other people: a poll in their chat (2 to 12 options), after your yes.
A poll for you alone: buttons or a list instead.
A button for another person: the link written out in the text.
A location pin, contact card or sticker in your own chat: the map link of the place from a web search on a link button; the name and the number in the text, with a copy button for the number; the picture as an ordinary image.
A voice note: the same words in text.
A file that is too big: a link to it, for example a shared Drive file.
A video to look at: Tuffy cannot watch videos. Ask what is in it, or ask for still pictures.
An edit after 15 minutes: send a new message with the right words.
A delete for everyone that is too late: delete it on your phone only.
A fourth pinned chat: unpin one of the three first.
A call, a video call or a status update: Tuffy cannot. Offer to write the message instead.

What Tuffy can read when people send it

Photos: Tuffy can describe them and read the text in them.
Voice notes: Tuffy can write down what was said.
Text files, PDFs (a scan is read page by page as a picture), Word, Excel and PowerPoint files: Tuffy can read them as text. A long one is read in parts.
Videos: Tuffy cannot yet. Only the caption can be read.

Chat actions in your chat list

Pin a chat to the top: Tuffy can. WhatsApp allows 3 pinned chats. With three already pinned, ask which one to unpin.
Mute or unmute, archive or unarchive, and mark a chat unread: Tuffy can. Only you see this, and it is done at once.
Mark a chat read: Tuffy can, only when you ask. The sender may then see blue ticks.
Star a message as your own bookmark: Tuffy can.
Labels: Tuffy can make a label, put it on a chat and take it off.
Disappearing messages in a chat: Tuffy can switch them to off, 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days. Everyone in the chat is told, and it waits for your yes. It does not work in your own chat with Tuffy.
Delete a whole chat with all its messages and files: Tuffy can, at your yes. It cannot be undone.

Groups

Tuffy can, each at your yes: make a group from the people you name, add and remove people, make someone an admin or take that away, change the name, the description, the photo and who may send, lock the details to admins, leave a group, join a group by its invite link, let people who asked to join in or turn them down (you must be an admin), and give you a group's invite link.
A WhatsApp group holds up to 1,024 people. Tuffy adds only a limited number of people at a time; for more people it gives the invite link.
Read a group's description, its settings and the people waiting to be let in: Tuffy cannot yet.
Tuffy takes orders only from you. In another group it answers once when you write its command there, or tag it yourself. A message from anyone else gives it no order.
Tuffy never tags everyone in a group with @all, and never brings your private things into a group.

What only you can do

Log in to a website or app, type a one-time code (OTP) that was sent to you, and pay: you do these yourself. Tuffy can open the page and hand the browser to you for that step.
Pay a bill, send money or recharge: Tuffy cannot.
Make or answer a call, and post a status update: Tuffy cannot.
Link your WhatsApp: the pairing code is shown only on the website's link page, never in a chat.

Built but not yet tried on a real phone

These are in Tuffy's code but have not been seen working on a real WhatsApp account yet: mixing different kinds of buttons in one message, stickers, pictures that open once, event invitations, forwarding, pinning a message, and labels. If one of them fails, say so in plain words and offer the nearest way above.