WhatsApp users will soon have the ability to respond to messages with any emoji, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Facebook post. “Introducing the ability to use any emoji as a WhatsApp reaction,” the CEO wrote, before listing a few of his favorite emojis. This comes just a few short months after WhatsApp added the ability to react with a limited number of just six emojis.
Like previous emoji reactions, the feature is accessed by long-pressing the message you want to react to. This opens the menu containing the previous six reaction emoticons along with a new plus icon. Tapping the plus icon opens a menu containing all the available emoticons, ranging from the standard smiley faces to recent additions like the greeting emoji and the melting face, and also includes different skin color variations. I suspect that very soon people will get very creative with their emoji reactions.
The expanded emoji reaction feature has previously been spotted in beta versions of the service, including on both iOS and Android, and brings WhatsApp in line with functionality already available on Meta’s Messenger service. The enhanced emoji reactions feature is rolling out now and will be available to all WhatsApp users in the coming weeks.
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