One of the latest innovations in WhatsApp is message reactions, which are now active for any user as a new way to reply to a message without saying anything. You can choose from 👍, ❤️, 😂, 😮, 😢 and 🙏 emojis instead. Now and starting from beta, it is possible to use any emoji.

WhatsApp started to be activated in a more or less generalized way. Reactions to messages with any emoji, both in WhatsApp Beta for Android and beta for iPhone. With this function we will find a button that opens the emoji keyboard so that we can select any of them when reacting.

React with any emoji you want

If you’ve ever wanted to react to a message on WhatsApp you can choose from only six emojis presented to you and you may fall short. For example, there is no option to use angry or disliked emoji found in Messenger reactions.

We’ve known that WhatsApp has been working on letting us use any emoji for months, but until now the company hadn’t enabled this feature for anyone, even using the beta version. Now, according to WaBetaInfo, first activations of reactions with personalized emojisIn beta versions of WhatsApp.

The main difference is that when you long tap on a message to send a reaction, you will see a seventh message. button with + symbol. Pressing it opens the WhatsApp emoji picker at the bottom of the window.

You can choose any WhatsApp emoji in this emoji picker and even change skin tone before posting feedback. WhatsApp is ready to receive reactions with any emoji from the very beginning, so these personalized reactions are visible to other users even if they do not have beta or personalized emoji sending functionality enabled on their account.

Interestingly, this is one of the few cases. WhatsApp surpasses Telegram. Telegram lets you send more reactions (and with animations), but access all the reactions you have to pay for Telegram Premium. It’s all free on WhatsApp, at least for now.

via | WaBetaInfo