WhatsApp has offered stickers for many years, which were later joined by animated stickers. At the same time, WhatsApp allows us to send animated GIFs from GIPHY (or Tenor). Now we’ve come full circle: you can send animated stickers directly from GIPHYwhich means that overnight many more stickers are available on the platform.
Although Meta has long integrated GIPHY’s animated GIFs into other of its apps such as Messenger or Instagram, in WhatsApp you can only send them as GIFs and not as stickers. Now, Sticker search engine integrates GIPHY resultsso you will find many more suggestions than before.
Thousands of animated stickers are coming to WhatsApp
WhatsApp has recently adopted the pleasant habit of updating the list of changes for each new versionin which we found the following list a few days ago:
Increased duration of status videos and audio to 60 seconds.
You can set HD quality as default by going to Settings > Storage & data > Media download quality.
Sticker search now includes results from GIPHY.
While we already had the first two items under the radar, the third one wasn’t. GIPHY was already integrated into WhatsApp, but only when searching for animated GIFs and not stickers. The sticker search engine, until now, He focused on the sticker packages we installed and other packages available. Old-school stickers, not animated GIFs with transparent backgrounds like GIPHY’s huge collection.
In this way you will find that there is many other animated stickers available on WhatsApp
The next step is to press the magnifying glass button to open the sticker search and look for what you want. They will first load the local stickers that you have already downloaded on your mobile, followed by other WhatsApp sticker suggestions, in More stickers.
The big difference is that little by little you will get more results, with animated stickers direct from GIPHY
You are free to use these animated GIPHY stickers in your chats like any other, as well as Save them to your favorites to always have them at hand. This is one of the main advantages over searching and sending animated GIFs with the old method, because in this case they are sent as images and do not behave the same way (for starters, they do not have a transparent background).
WhatsApp included this change in the notes of the version 2.24.16.7 betaso it should be available for those with a later version, beta or stable.
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