Once the Covid Certificate has been obtained, it is convenient to have it printed and downloaded to your mobile phone, thus ensuring that it is always accessible. In addition, there are ways not to lose it on the phone: we explain how you can open it directly from WhatsApp or Telegram. It’s a quick process that will make you feel very comfortable.
With the incidence of the Coronavirus rebounding, and Christmas with restrictions awaiting us, it is convenient to have the Covid Certificate downloaded in order to teach it quickly. There are several ways to save this Certificate on the phone: from using Google Pay to directly opening the PDF file. What are you wasting time in locating said file? If what you use the most on your mobile is WhatsApp, registering the Covid certificate there will save you speed.
First: download the Covid Certificate
If you still do not have the document that accredits you have passed the Coronavirus, have a negative test or have been vaccinated, the first thing to do is to download it to the phone. There are two ways to do this: use your community’s health app or request the Covid certificate from the Spanish Ministry of Health.
To download the Covid certificate, follow these steps:
- Download the health application that corresponds to your Autonomous Community on Google Play. By searching for “health” and community, you can easily install it. Once with the app, log in with your user data (you can request it at the clinic) and find the Covid Certificate section.
- In case you have Cl @ ve or a digital certificate, you can request the Covid Certificate directly from the Ministry of Health. Go to this link and follow the guided process to download the PDF document.
Whichever method you choose, you will have a PDF document with a description of your Covid-19 status and a QR code to verify that this status is correct according to health authorities. Once with the document on the phone, you need to attach it to WhatsApp and Telegram to have it accessible within seconds.
How to install the Covid certificate on WhatsApp
For this process, we will create a personal chat, we will upload the PDF as a file to said chat and We will “pin” him so that the conversation is on top. This way you will have the Covid certificate clearly visible as soon as you open your WhatsApp: enter your chat, click on the file and you will be able to view the QR code.
Let’s see the steps to have the certificate in a personal chat:
- You need to open a WhatsApp chat only with you. You have several ways, although the easiest is to create a group with a second person (notify them first) and, once created, to kick them out of the group. It will be exclusively for you, like a personal chat.
- Once you’ve chatted, click on the clip icon, click on “Document”, find the Covid certificate (it’s probably in “Downloads”) and download it.
- When the PDF is in your chat, you will only have to click on the PDF to open it. Choose “Drive” as the default application.
- Exit the WhatsApp chats section, tap and hold your personal chat and click on the pin icon, the one on the left.
- Your cat, with the Covid certificate, will always stay in the upper zone, on the rest of the conversations. So you will have located it.
- An extra to open the Covid certificate even faster is add your chat as a desktop widget . Choose WhatsApp in the widget section, select your chat and you can open it almost instantly.
How to install the Covid certificate in Telegram
The process is basically identical to the previous one, although more simplified since Telegram offers a personal chat as standard where you can save any files you can think of, including the Covid certificate.
Once the document is downloaded to your mobile, open your Telegram app and follow these steps:
- Go to your “Saved Messages”.
- Download the Covid certificate as a file by clicking on the attachments clip.
- Once the PDF is in the chat, click on the three menu items to the left of the message. Select “Define”.
- Once the Covid certificate is fixed in your recorded messages the document will be at the top of the screen. Now go to the chats home page and hold the “Saved Messages” key.
- Select the pin to set up your personal chat, so it’s always available even if you have tons of groups and conversations.
- As with WhatsApp, you can pin a Telegram widget to the desktop to directly access your chat with the Covid certificate.
Have the Covid Certificate in the messaging app you use the most allows you not to lose the document and access it in seconds if you need to show it. It is very comfortable and is perfect for those who don’t have a lot of ideas about phones and are used to using WhatsApp and the like.
