WhatsApp will have a confetti effect. Something iPhone users have been using for years

WhatsApp plans to update reactions in chats, turning them into animated reactions, this has already started with emojis corresponding to confetti and celebrations

WhatsApp continues to evolve with new features implemented for iOS and Android users, which you can view month by month in a special summary here on iPadizate. One of the new features coming soon thanks to a new report from WABetaInfo, it’s the reaction animationsomething that has been happening in iMessage for a long time. What is it about?

Animated reactions with confetti emojis, the new thing coming to WhatsApp

In previous updates, WhatsApp allowed you to react to messages in a chat using emojis. NOW, these emojis will increase from 6 to 7 emojis to make room for the recently used emoji

of your discussions in general.

Along with this, WhatsApp plans to encourage reactions made with confetti emojiwhich is not at all surprising since in iMessage it is possible to animate practically the entire window of the iPhone or Apple device in question. If you still don’t know how to do it, we leave you the list of 10 secret iMessage tricks for iPhone.

Other emojis tested by beta testers are those related to festive themes.the party face emoji and the confetti ball emoji. This news could mean one thing, WhatsApp prepares for the end of year holidays. The effect is seductive, coming straight out of the emoji and scrolling down.

This is how WhatsApp will allow animated reactions using emojis

This new feature will be available on iOS and Android and It will be possible to develop it using the Lottie framework

known for developers who are dedicated to creating and rendering animations. They are distinguished by their lightness and fluidityin addition to integrating into any application. Better yet, these lively reactions will not compromise WhatsApp performance by having animations based on small files. Likewise, they stand out for their fluidity and clarity, although they are far from what we have already seen in iMessage.

Users who have the WhatsApp beta 2.24.24.17 can now access animated confetti reactionsmainly Android. We can certainly predict that it will arrive in time for the end of the year, it will be interesting to see how these reactions act on iOS although we do not expect much difference like the screenshot that the can be seen above.

One of the latest updates of WhatsApp is related to the use of chats, the most important is that Now, as long as we write a text and it is not sent, the chat will display the label “Draft”. As for screen widgets, you can now select contacts by criteria: Recent, Favorites, Pinned or Frequent.

Don’t forget to keep your WhatsApp application updated to receive all the newsincluding the one expected by the end of the year. In case you missed them, here we leave you the WhatsApp updates for the month of October.

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