Users will be able to react to messages in their WhatsApp chats with six different emojis in the beta version for Android. This feature is similar to message reactions in Facebook and Instagram Messenger, platforms that are also part of Meta.
With more than two billion users worldwide, WhatsApp is adding reactions to beta 2.22.8.2 of the app, as reported by WaBetaInfo, a trusted source of the messaging platform's upcoming features.
With a long press of a received message, the feature allows users to react with one of six emoji: thumbs up, heart, crying, laughter, surprised face or hands together (usually understood as “thank you”). WhatsApp seems to be implementing the feature on Android in stages.
This way, if someone is fond of the words sent by one of your contacts, you just have to hold down the message for a couple of seconds and choose the “drawing” that most represents that feeling (for example, a heart).
It should be emphasized that, for now, to use it, it is necessary to be part of the beta. When the trial periods end, it will be released generically and periodically to users in all regions, which could take weeks or months.
According to WaBetaInfo, although not everyone can react, if among your contacts there is a lucky person who is part of the beta, it is possible to see such reactions in the messages.
In addition to its appearance on Android, there are signs that emoji reactions are also on the way for desktop and iOS apps. In early January, the WhatsApp beta app on iOS had a configuration change to control “Reaction Notifications”, and a similar setting appeared in the beta version of the desktop app earlier this month.
One of the most interesting details of this new update is that reactions will also be available in groups, so a message can have several reactions from different people within these collective chats.
According to a previous post from the same site, the number of reactions will be seen in a bubble below the message, and it will show the most used emoticons, as currently seen in Facebook posts.
“Messages can have an infinite number of reactions, but if you have more than 999 reactions, you will read '999+',” WABetaInfo said months earlier.
Reactions with emojis have become common in other services inside and outside Meta, such as Telegram, Google Messages and even Twitter direct messages. Now, finally, one of the most popular messaging apps in the world is getting into action.
According to WhatsApp, every month its platform records an average of “100 billion messages”, in addition to “1 billion calls every day”; figures that of course demonstrate the power that this application shows in the middle of those in its category.
Recently the platform added a new feature that consists of using the audio player in the background on iOS. This means that users can do other things in the app while listening to what is sent to them, or also what is received. For example, you will be able to write to a chat to respond to something urgent without having to stop playing the audio from another chat.
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