TechSoftwareAppsAndroid and iPhone users just got a great new WhatsApp featureThe new Avatars feature enables you to make your app more personal without using your photosWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechSoftwareAppsAndroid and iPhone users just got a great new WhatsApp featureThe new Avatars feature enables you to make your app more personal without using your photosWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The new Avatars feature enables you to make your app more personal without using your photos
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Shutterstock)
(Image credit: Shutterstock)
If you’re a WhatsApp user with aniPhoneorAndroid phone, Mark Zuckerberg has some good news for you: writing on Facebook, he’sannouncedthat “we’re bringing avatars to WhatsApp! Now you can use your avatar as a sticker in chats. More styles coming soon across all our apps.”
The new feature, which is available now, enables you to create a personalised avatar to use as your WhatsApp profile photo in place of a real photo, and you can also use it as a sticker in chats alongside another 35 custom stickers.
(Image credit: Meta)
(Image credit: Meta)
Why avatars are better than emoji
WhatsApp’s avatars and stickers are more personal than using emoji, and the collection is designed to represent lots of different emotions and actions that can express a wider range of actions than the usual emoji palette. They’re similar to the Memoji inApple’siOSor the personalised emoji in Gboard and third-party apps onAndroid.
As Metaexplainsin its announcement post, “Your avatar is a digital version of you that can be created from billions of combinations of diverse hair styles, facial features, and outfits.” In addition to the options you can use from today, Meta also plans to introduce additional options such as lighting and shading effects, hair style textures and other features to make your virtual you more you. It hasn’t said when those additional features are coming, though: the official line is that they’ll be coming “over time”.
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