If just yesterday Mark Zuckergerg announced that WhatsApp’s backlash had begun to emerge, it has now been WhatsApp itself that has confirmed that it has been launched. More features coming soon.

The first are reactions that are invisible to us for now, although Zuckerberg and WhatsApp assure that they are already present. Latter, WhatsApp increased the maximum file size The number of people that we can send through the application and finally join a group has been increased.

I’m dumping from 100MB to 2GB because it’s my turn

On the one hand, reactions. These allow us react, excuse the redundancy, chat messages with emojis (👍❤️😂😲😥🙏) in the purest Slack or Telegram style. No surprises, except that WhatsApp has confirmed that they will add “many more emoticons” in the future. Theoretically they already exist, but for now they are not visible to us.

On the other hand, it’s already possible (again in theory, because we have the updated implementation and we can’t) Send files up to 2GB. This is a significant improvement over the previous limit of 100 MB. The sent files will keep end-to-end encryption and we will also be able to see a counter when downloading or sending the files to know how long it takes for the transfer to finish.

Finally, WhatsApp announced that they are working to increase the maximum number of participants in a group. The current limit is 256 people and WhatsApp aims to replicate, i.e., Take it to 512 people. This makes sense, as communities are just around the corner and increasing the number of users in each group seems potentially necessary.

It seems that WhatsApp is taking charge of the rollout of these functions. calm down. Although they say they are already available, they do not appear to be active for the majority of users. we will have to wait.

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