It was only a few days ago that it was announced that WhatsApp would soon allow users to reply to messages, and now the first images of the new feature have started to appear online.
The Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is working to incorporate emoji responses into texts. It’s already available on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, iMessage, and even LinkedIn. If you don’t want to reply to every message you receive, you can react to the message using emojis to express your feelings.
A known insider wabetainfo was the first to report on WhatsApp’s planned feature update, which was later confirmed by the company.
According to the image published by Wabetainfo, the emoji responses would be displayed immediately below the messages that were received through the application. You may also be interested in knowing the 10 Best WhatsApp Tricks and Features
Individual and group conversations will be able to take advantage of the functionality. Everyone in the group could watch it individually to see how they reacted to the message.
As you can see, this message has seven different replies, and, for the time being, you may respond with whatever emoji you choose. Because reactions are not anonymous, everyone participating in the conversation will be able to see who responded to a certain message. Even though the screenshot was obtained from an iOS version of WhatsApp, the company is working on bringing message replies to the WhatsApp beta for Android as welldepending on the company.
Wabetainfo also reported that you can reply to a message multiple times using different emojis. In addition, the procedure is end-to-end encrypted, which ensures that no one outside the conversation can see your responses. There is no limit to the number of reactions a message can have, however, if you have more than 999 reactions, the message will be read 999+. Particularly relevant in group conversations is the concept of group chats.
The WhatsApp feature tracker reveals that the feature is present in the development stage. The final feature may differ from what was shown during the beta versions.
Also on that topic, WhatsApp has officially introduced the ability to transfer chat history from one iPhone to another Android phone.
Although the feature will be available to all Android phones eventually, WhatsApp will start with Samsung phones running Android 10 and above as a testing platform for the service.
Users will need to connect a USB Type-C connection to the Lightning connector to transfer the data. However, even after you’ve moved your data from an old device to a new phone, your data will still be retained on the old device indefinitely. You can manually remove it if you don’t want it to be there anymore.
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