Message reactions arrive to WhatsApp
We had been announcing for some time that the message reactions on WhatsApp would be about to arrive and, finally, they have arrived. But it's not just this feature, there are others that we'll tell you about below and that will make the app much more productive and fun.
After the audio playback while viewing other chats, the improvement in privacy that we all asked for comes reactions, a way to quickly reply to any message we receive, without having to write a longer reply in the chat thread.
Message reactions, higher file size limit and new maximum group size come to WhatsApp:
You will soon see a row of emojis right above a message. For starters, there are only a handful of common reactions available (&x1f44d;&x1f3fc;❤️&x1f602;&x1f62e;&x1f622;&x1f64f;&x1f3fc;) but Zuckerberg's company has said that support for “all emojis and skin tones” will be added in the future .
Reactions to WhatsApp messages are now available (Image: blog.whatsapp.com)
To be able to put them you simply have to keep pressing the message continuously so that a small window appears showing the different emoticons.
WhatsApp has also increased the limit to 2 GB for file transfers between users. In-app file sharing capabilities have become a key feature of the service and the app has been running since 2017 without increasing the 100MB limit we had until now.
The default maximum size of group chats has also been extended from 256 to 512 users as the limit.
In its blog post announcing the new features, WhatsApp says the larger group limit is rolling out "slowly," while message reactions and larger file size transfer limits are currently rolling out to users around the world.
We, at 1:45 p.m. on May 5, 2022, still do not have them available. We will have to wait for the update that has to drop shortly.
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