Neither two months after the arrival of the reactions to reply to the messageson WhatsApp it is already time to change: the company, which is part of the Meta group, announced on Twitter that, “since you asked us …”, the emojis available will be all those included in the phone keypad.
Until now, the functionality was in fact limited to only 6 veneers (thumbs up, heart, laughter, surprise, sadness, support), while now it is expanded practically to infinity: if you keep your finger pressed on the message you want to react to, the 6 default emojis always appear in the foreground, but also an icon in the shape of More; by clicking it, you access the navigation menu of the facets, from which you can choose the one you prefer. Or in any case the one that best suits the situation.
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WhatsApp aims at the American market, which in 2022 is still the realm of texting
by Emanuele Capone
We wrote “is expanded”, but as usual we mean “will be expanded”: the novelty is being released for the Android and iOS versions of the appbut for the rollout to reach nearly 2 billion users worldwide, it obviously takes time.
The functionality align WhatsApp to Messenger from this point of view, and it is only the latest in a wide series of changes that have affected or will affect the app: from the possibility of having a single account on two different phones at the edit messages after sendingfrom the concessions for move data from Android to iPhone at the incognito mode.