WhatsApp and Instagram belong to the same parent company. So it’s not surprising that the popular messenger also uses the photo platform and is now adopting a well-known feature. For Instagram users, this is old hat.
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Only the future will tell whether Mark Zuckerberg and his Metaverse will eventually become the king of virtual reality. The 37-year-old is already the undisputed ruler of social media: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – all three top dogs belong to the meta group founded by Zuckerberg. Therefore, there is one between all three lively feature exchangeas the most recent example between WhatsApp and Instagram shows again.
WhatsApp is working on Quick Reactions for Stories
In the future, Messenger will get a feature that has been available on Instagram for a long time: Quick Reactions. This is intended for WhatsApp users only react to a status using an emoji (Source: WABetainfo). The WhatsApp developers are currently still working on the feature, the experts at WABetainfo report. A screenshot already shows what it looks like in its current form:
Although the screenshot is from the desktop version of WhatsApp, the experts assume that the function will also be available in the Android and iPhone versions of the messenger.
A total of eight of these emojis are said to be available as a reaction. It remains to be seen whether more will be added in the future. After WhatsApp users have selected an emoji reaction, it should then Appear as regular emoji in chat with the person who sent the status.
There are also many interesting alternatives to WhatsApp:
Not the only innovation for WhatsApp
It is not yet known when WhatsApp will publish the new quick reactions for everyone. According to WABetainfo, the new feature is currently under development. The new Quick Reactions are not the only innovation that the WhatsApp developers are working on. In the future it should be possible to use two mobile devices with one and the same number. This would make it possible, for example, to use WhatsApp on a tablet.