WhatsApp is rolling out some new options and design enhancements that will help you grow to be quicker and extra inventive when messaging. Beginning immediately, WhatsApp customers can double-tap to react to messages in chats somewhat 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 supplied.
It’s the same quality-of-life function that Discord offers: inserting your favourite reactions inside simple attain to stop you from having to hunt by a large wall of emojis. WhatsApp customers can nonetheless simply entry their different emoji choices by clicking the plus image on the response bar. However, 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 virtual backgrounds that WhatsApp launched for video calls final 12 months at the moment are coming to its messages, permitting customers to edit pictures utilizing 30 totally different visible results after 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 the moment solely accessible on Android, with iOS help coming “quickly,” in keeping with WhatsApp.