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

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

WhatsApp continues in constant evolution thanks to new features implemented for iOS and Android users, which you can consult month by month in a special summary here on iPadizate. One of the new features that will come soon thanks to a new report from WABetaInfo is the reactions animationsomething that has happened in iMessage for a long time. What is it about?

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

In past updates, WhatsApp allowed you to react to messages within a chat using emojis. Now, these emojis will expand from 6 to 7 emojis to make room for the recently used emoji of your chats in general.

iMessage effects with confetti and celebrations

Along with it, WhatsApp plans to encourage reactions made with the confetti emojiwhich is not surprising at all 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 that beta testers have tested are those related to festive themesthe party face emoji and the confetti ball emoji. This news could mean one thing, WhatsApp is preparing for the end of year holidays. The effect is attractive, coming straight out of the emoji and scrolling down.

Confetti reaction animation on WhatsApp

This is how WhatsApp will make animated reactions using emojis possible

This novelty will be available on both iOS and Android and It will be possible to develop it thanks to the Lottie frameworkknown for developers who are dedicated to creating and rendering animations. They stand out for being light and fluidin addition to integrating into any app. Best of all, these animated reactions will not compromise WhatsApp performance by having animations based on small file sizes. Likewise, they stand out for being fluid and clear, although they fall far short of what we have already seen in iMessage.

Users who have the WhatsApp beta version 2.24.24.17 can now access animated confetti reactionsmostly 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 can be seen above.

One of the latest WhatsApp updates 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 show the label “Draft”. As for screen widgets, you can now select contacts by criteria: Recent, Favorites, Pinned or Frequent.

Remember to keep your WhatsApp app 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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