The message reaction feature announced last month by WhatsApp is now available to its users. It works similar to how Facebook reactions work – long press on a WhatsApp message and select the emoji you want to react with.
Right now, you can choose from six emojis, shown by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his Facebook post below, but WhatsApp has promised to add support for more emojis and skin tones in the future.
The Message Reaction feature is already available to some users on the latest version of WhatsApp, but it will take around a week or two for it to reach all WhatsApp users globally.
Reactions to WhatsApp messages currently support six emojis
In addition to reacting to messages with emojis, WhatsApp users can also share larger files now as WhatsApp has increased the file transfer size from 100MB to 2GB.
Additionally, WhatsApp doubled the maximum number of participants allowed in a group chat, from 256 to 512 people. However, WhatsApp says it is “slowly rolling out the ability” to add up to 512 people to a group, so you’ll have to wait before you can add more than 256 members to a WhatsApp group.
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