WhatsApp Message Emoji Reaction Animation Spotted on Android: Details

WhatsApp seems to be engaged on a function that may enable customers to “react” to messages on the service utilizing emoji, and the app was not too long ago noticed engaged on the flexibility to view response data for messages. Now, the Meta-owned messaging service is alleged to be engaged on a brand new animation for when a consumer reacts to a message. Reactions on messages will ultimately be examined on the beta channel for Android, iOS, WhatsApp Web and the official desktop apps, earlier than being rolled out to customers on the steady channel.

A brand new report by function tracker WABetaInfo exhibits a brand new animation being developed on WhatsApp for Android when reacting to messages on the app. The animation exhibits the chosen emoji response “jump” into place on the backside of the message, and could also be used to attract a consumer’s consideration to the chosen emoji response. The message reactions function is at present unavailable to customers — together with the beta channel, as it’s at present beneath growth.

Selecting an emoji to react to a message now exhibits a brand new animation
Photo Credit: WABetaInfo

Last week, WhatsApp was noticed engaged on message reactions on the WhatsApp Desktop beta model. The function tracker shared a screenshot of the function, displaying an emoji icon subsequent to particular person messages, which reveals a panel with six emoji when clicked. The animation shared from the Android app and the WhatsApp Desktop app each present the identical emoji — thumbs up, crimson coronary heart, face with tears of pleasure, shocked face, crying face, and folded fingers emoji. It is at present unclear whether or not WhatsApp will let customers react to messages with different emoji when growth is accomplished.

WhatsApp message reactions had been first noticed in August 2021, and the corporate has been growing the function for months, whereas glimpses of the function have sometimes been noticed on-line, giving customers an concept of what to anticipate. Reacting to messages with emoji just isn’t a brand new function — it’s already out there on a number of messaging platforms together with Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Signal, and Telegram. WhatsApp is but to formally announce message reactions, and the function may see additional modifications and enhancements earlier than it’s launched to customers.