Over the previous few months, we now have seen WhatsApp check a number of new options. A few of these options are actually rolling out publicly. The corporate Thursday introduced that emoji message reactions, elevated file dimension restrict, and bigger teams can be found on the most recent model of the app.
Message reactions on WhatsApp work akin to different messaging apps like Fb Messenger, Telegram, and Slack. You may long-press on a message to react to it with an emoji. To begin with, WhatsApp is supporting six of the preferred and expressive emoji reactions. It would finally add extra reactions with a number of pores and skin tones.
Reactions will assist declutter your conversations, notably in teams with numerous folks. As an alternative of everybody reacting to a message with a separate emoji message, they’ll merely react to the unique message itself.
Talking of teams, WhatsApp can also be growing the variety of most individuals in a gaggle to 512. That’s double the earlier restrict of 256. In keeping with the corporate, this was “one of many high requests” that it has constantly acquired. This capacity wouldn’t be accessible to everybody instantly although. WhatsApp says it’s “slowly rolling out” the elevated group dimension.
Together with permitting you to create bigger teams, WhatsApp will now allow you to ship bigger recordsdata as effectively. It’s not a mere two-fold enhance although. You may ship recordsdata as massive as 2GB in dimension, over a 20-fold enhance from the earlier restrict of 100MB. It’s a much-needed change in right now’s world of distant work and collaborations. Maybe WhatsApp is just a little late to the social gathering right here, with Telegram permitting its customers to ship recordsdata of as much as 2GB since 2020.
Nonetheless, if WhatsApp is your major messaging app, you’d discover these new additions fairly helpful. Message reactions and elevated file dimension restrict will probably be accessible to you as quickly as you put in the most recent model of the app, which began rolling out earlier this week through the Google Play Retailer for Android gadgets (hyperlink under). Help for bigger teams may even steadily attain all WhatsApp customers globally.
WhatsApp has extra to return
WhatsApp additionally has extra new options within the works. The corporate final month introduced that it’s going to let group admins delete “errant or problematic messages” for everybody within the chat. The function not too long ago grew to become accessible within the beta model of the app, giving us a glimpse of it. A public rollout ought to be simply across the nook now.
In the meantime, you possibly can click on the button under to obtain the most recent model of WhatsApp for Android from the Google Play Retailer. If there’s no replace accessible for you, test again once more in just a few days.
