First stickers came to WhatsApp, then animated stickers, then avatars that became a sticker pack, and now animated stickers of our avatar. They’re like stickers for our animated avatar that we already have.

A few days ago Meta announced a few news about their avatars, some of which affect WhatsApp, such as the possibility of creating our own avatar from a photo in the future. Something they didn’t tell us but we know from WaBetaInfo animated stickers based on our avatar.

Your avatar comes to life

Ever since WhatsApp added avatars a few years ago, two things you can do with them: use them as a profile picture or create a sticker pack to use in chats.

This sticker pack contains a set of stickers that have grown over time but have one thing in common until now: they were static. Soon, Stickers of your WhatsApp avatar will be animatedat least some.

As we saw thanks to WaBetaInfo, animated stickers will be mixed with static ones. in the sticker pack of our avatar. In the sticker pack preview we will be able to see them in action before sending them to chat.

This innovation, which we do not know when it will come, will not be the only innovation that will affect WhatsApp stickers soon. Preparing the app takes time we can use the avatar during video calls instead of showing our face, as well as redesigning the emoji and sticker picker, something that continues to be gradually enabled to users, first in beta.

via | WaBeta Information

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