WhatsApp is rolling out some new options and design enhancements that will help you develop into quicker and extra inventive when messaging. Starting at this time, WhatsApp customers can double-tap to react to messages in chats fairly than tapping and holding, with their most-used emojis now being displayed within the scrolling pop-out menu as an alternative of the generic choice that was beforehand offered.
It’s an identical quality-of-life function that Discord gives: putting your favourite reactions inside straightforward attain to forestall you from having to hunt by way of an enormous wall of emojis. WhatsApp customers can nonetheless simply entry their different emoji choices by clicking the plus image on the response bar. On the opposite hand, Meta’s Messenger app nonetheless solely shows the identical 5 emojis as reactions for every message — I’d prefer to see this replace carried over from WhatsApp sooner or later.
The filters and digital backgrounds that WhatsApp launched for video calls final 12 months at the moment are coming to its messages, permitting customers to edit photographs utilizing 30 completely different visible results once they take a photograph or video in chats. Sticker packs can now even be shared on to chats, and customers can flip their selfies into customized stickers by tapping on the sticker icon. The Sticker selfies function is at present solely accessible on Android, with iOS assist coming “quickly,” based on WhatsApp.
