WhatsApp Reactions will start rolling out. This feature allow users to quickly react to messages with an emoji, for now, there will be 6, like, love, laugh, surprise, sad, and thanks, as in the future all emojis will be available.
WhatsApp, the Meta-own brand made the announcement via a Instagram story by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had last month tease the feature as coming soon in the company’s big reveal about WhatsApp Communities.
There will initially only be six WhatsApp Reactions, something Mark Zuckerberg also highlight in his story.
A future update may just allow WhatsApp Reactions users to utilise any emoji, GIF, or sticker in the messenger, a recent report said citing evidence in a development build.
The latest version spot in testing looks set to give access to the entire emoji keyboard when users tap the plus button.
For now the wider emoji reaction palette is not yet available even to beta testers.
The WhatsApp Reactions feature has in testing since as far back as 2018, but initially, sticker reactions were plan, before it took something closer to its final form in testing last year.
This feature has refer to as Emoji Reactions, Message Reactions, and Quick Reactions in the past.
WhatsApp had said Communities will bring many features over and above WhatsApp Groups, including enabling admins with new tools, such as ability to send a single message to everyone and control over which groups can be include in a particular community.
WhatsApp had also tease more upcoming updates, including increase file sharing limit (up to 2GB) and the ability to enable group audio calls for up to 32 people simultaneously, of which so far only the latter has roll out.
