Do you love sending stickers and GIFs to your friends and family on WhatsApp? Then we have some good news. The company has announced a series of What’s new and improved in the Android appincluding, finally, the arrival of the native tool for creating stickers for all users of the operating system.
In addition, WhatsApp will integrate Giphya database that contains countless animated GIFs and stickers that we can use in our chats.
Often a GIF or sticker can better represent what we want to say, and now WhatsApp has many more
Although some users had already received the tool to create stickers on Android, the company announced that it has launched this function for all users worldwide. In this way, we will no longer need to use third-party websites or applications to create stickers, we can do it directly from WhatsApp.
The company has also partnered with Giphy, responsible for one of the largest and most well-known databases of animated GIFs and stickers, so we can use their library in the app.
This means that With this integration we will be able to have many more GIFs on WhatsAppwithout having to leave the application. The steps to send them are very simple, just click on the button to send stickers and search in the GIF tab or in the stickers tab. We can use words or emojis to perform the search. The Giphy library began to arrive in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android a few years ago, but now it will be available to all users.
Last but not least, Meta AI, artificial intelligence available on WhatsAppYou can also create custom stickers directly from the messaging app. However, this feature is initially only available to Android (and also iOS) users in the United States, although it can be used in English and Spanish.
All of these new features will gradually arrive to users via an update over the coming days and weeks. Sticker creation via Meta AI is expected to reach more territories in the future, but there is still no confirmed date for its availability outside the United States.
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