All emojis will soon be available to use as a react in a future WhatsApp update

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WhatsAppcontinues to iterate on its updates, with the ability to react to messages expanding, letting you use any emoji thanks to a new ‘plus’ icon.

Reacting to emojis inWhatsApphas saved many users from replying to messages with, words. A simple crying or thumbs-up emoji can more easily cut the awkwardness in a conversation.

It’s something that’s appeared in other messaging apps, such asInstagramandFacebook Messenger, but WhatsApp will finally let you express how you really want to react to a friend or family member.

WhileWaBetaInfo doesn’t saywhen it could be arriving for everyone, it is available now for beta users onAndroidandiOS.

Analysis: lets see gifs and other react options

Meta is constantly expanding on WhatsApp’s features - frombetter voice notesto being able toleave a group quietly without any drama.

However, it can go further for reactions. Other apps such as iMessage and WeChat lets you use stickers as reacts instead of emojis, but WhatsApp can go one step further with GIFS.

There are plenty of sites these days where you can make your own GIFS -Frinkiacsprings to mind that lets you use a classic Simpsons reference as a reply. But let’s see the ability to use these as reacts as well.

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WhatsApp is currently in a battle in the messaging space withApple, Telegram, WeChat and its own parent company’s apps such as Facebook and Instagram. But if it keeps up with these new features, there’s less chance of its users moving on to these other apps in the near future.

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