WhatsApp customers will quickly have the flexibility to react to messages with any emoji, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced in a Facebook post. “We’re rolling out the ability to use any emoji as a reaction on WhatsApp,” the CEO wrote earlier than itemizing a few his favourite emoji. It comes just some brief months after WhatsApp added the flexibility to react with a restricted variety of simply six emoji.

Like earlier emoji reactions, the function is accessible by long-pressing the message you wish to react to. This opens the menu containing the earlier six emoji reactions together with a brand new plus icon. Tapping the plus icon opens a menu containing each out there emoji, starting from normal smiley faces to latest additions just like the saluting emoji and the melting face, and it additionally consists of totally different pores and skin tone variations. I believe persons are going to get very artistic with their emoji reactions very quickly.

The expanded emoji response function has beforehand been noticed within the beta variations of the service, together with on both iOS and Android, and brings WhatsApp according to the performance already out there on Meta’s Messenger service. The expanded emoji reactions function is rolling out now and might be out there to all WhatsApp customers within the coming weeks.