What you need to know
- Whatsapp starts rolling out a new update for its ‘reactions’.
- The new updates allow users to go from a choice of just six emojis to a full keyboard of emojis.
- The new update may be slow as Whatsapp is rolling it out across Android and iOS devices.
Whatsapp continues to provide its users with new ways to express themselves. The latest update sees the messaging system providing its users with a full emoji keyboard.
Whatsapp boss, Will Cathcart brought the news to Twitter (Opens in a new tab) About the platform’s expanded emoji panel. The new update, which is currently rolling out across Android and iOS, will give Whatsapp emoji reactions (Opens in a new tab) Comprehensive repair. Usually, you can only choose from six emojis to use as a response to a message. The fact that users of the platform united their voices caused frustration against this fact. Whatsapp, through a Twitter video, has impacted their audio community.
Since you asked… all the emoji reactions are here! We feel 🤩😎🙌🤸🎉💚 about it. App now launched on Android and iOS pic.twitter.com/Opk7x0n0VP11 July 2022
The new ‘Full Emoji Keyboard’ will be applied in their ‘Reactions’ to messages showing the full list of emojis located anywhere. The photo, posted on Twitter by Will Cathcart, shows a hologram of a thread between people. A long press on a message will handle some of the emoji reactions as it always has, but for now, there’s a plus icon. This plus icon is what you will click to browse every emoji brought by Whatsapp.
An update like this is important in Whatsapp’s eyes given how claustrophobic its community is due to restrictions. Whatsapp now allows more expression like many other messaging apps (Opens in a new tab).