WhatsApp announced on Thursday that it’s including emoji reactions to its chat app, letting you specific your emotions towards a message with out having to ship a person emoji as a message. Although the corporate introduced reactions alongside its new communities function, Meta spokesperson Joshua Breckman instructed The Verge that reactions shall be accessible on all chats once they launch, which shall be “soon.”

The function shall be comparatively restricted to start out, solely letting you react with six emoji (although, in my view, WhatsApp has picked many of the necessary ones). However, Will Cathcart, the pinnacle of WhatsApp, stated that it’s going to help “all emojis and skin-tones” sooner or later.

It’s good to see that this function is coming to such a well-liked messaging app, as I’ve all the time appreciated having it in apps like Slack or Telegram (which solely bought them a few months ago). The firm additionally introduced that it’ll let customers share a lot bigger recordsdata, setting the max file dimension at 2GB, up from 100MB. It’s additionally elevated the variety of folks that may be on a voice name directly from eight to 32.