WhatsApp is including avatars, customized stickers that may be personalized with totally different hair kinds, faces and clothes choices. The Meta-owned chat app introduced the brand new characteristic in a weblog put up Wednesday, and it is rolling out this week.
The avatar characteristic is much like these of a number of different messaging apps, together with Fb Messenger (additionally owned by Meta) and the Memoji characteristic in Apple’s iMessage. After making a customized character, WhatsApp offers you 36 totally different stickers that can show the avatar with varied feelings and actions.
The addition is the newest characteristic designed to assist deliver WhatsApp as much as parity with its rivals. Current additions have included the power to textual content notes to oneself, create massive Communities much like Telegram’s Teams and 32-person video calls.
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Meta’s WhatsApp has additionally been participating in an promoting marketing campaign in opposition to Apple’s iMessage, selling itself as a cross-platform messaging possibility with end-to-end encryption. Google has been operating the same marketing campaign, which targets Apple’s iMessage whereas selling its personal Messages app on Android powered by the RCS texting commonplace. Nonetheless, not like WhatsApp, Google’s Messages app is presently an Android-only expertise.
In the meantime, Apple’s iMessage has spent the autumn including a number of new options through iOS 16 updates, together with the power to unsend and edit textual content messages.
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