WhatsApp to let users react with any emoji, not just its chosen six
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#619CX)
A selection of the newly available emoji reactions. | Image: Meta WhatsApp users will soon have the ability to react to messages with any emoji, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a Facebook post. We're rolling out the ability to use any emoji as a reaction on WhatsApp," the CEO wrote before listing a couple of his favorite emoji. It comes just a few short months after WhatsApp added the ability to react with a limited number of just six emoji.
Like previous emoji reactions, the feature is accessible by long-pressing the message you want to react to. This opens the menu containing the previous six emoji reactions along with a new plus icon. Tapping the plus icon opens a menu containing every available emoji, ranging from standard smiley faces to recent additions like the saluting emoji and the...