While WhatsApp is reported to be working on two new features — Vacation mode and Silent mode to make your chatting experience better, the popular messaging platform has now rolled out a bunch of fun 'Stickers' to both Android as well as iOS. The ability to send stickers in WhatsApp conversations and group chats has been incorporated to improve your chatting experience and to make it more engaging.
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"Whether with a smiling teacup or a crying broken heart, stickers help you share your feelings in a way that you can't always express with words. To start, we're launching sticker packs created by our designers at WhatsApp and a selection of stickers from other artists," WhatsApp said.
“From emoji and camera features to Status and animated GIFs, we’re always looking to add new features that make communicating with friends and family on WhatsApp easy and fun. Today, we’re excited to introduce a new way for people to express themselves with stickers,” WhatsApp said in a blog post.
To use stickers in a chat, one simply needs to tap the new sticker button available in the text box, and then select the sticker you want to share. One can also add new sticker packs by tapping the 'Plus' icon. The new feature is already available for iPhone users on stable 2.18.100 version, however, Android is yet to receive the new update. The company stated that new "Stickers will be available for Android and iPhone over the coming weeks."
WhatsApp has also added support for third-party sticker packs to allow designers and developers around the world to create stickers for the messaging app. To achieve this, the company has included a set of APIs and interfaces that allow you to build sticker apps that add stickers to WhatsApp on Android or iOS.
