These are the new features that are about to come to WhatsApp

WhatsApp is evolving, and that is something that cannot be denied. Since last year, the most widely used messaging application in the world is presenting news almost monthly, through continuous updates Issues such as internet calls, the ability to mark messages as unread or saving them as featured, are just some of the things that have brought WhatsApp back into the competition against other messaging apps.However, there are still many things to come. Elements discovered in your tests, in the translation service of WhatsApp or in the applications themselves. These are those functions:

Stickers

Yes, WhatsApp will also have stickers. As has happened with Facebook Messenger and Telegram after LINE made them fashionable, finally WhatsApp will have large expressive drawings to send in chats. Something that could come very soon according to the latest rumors. By the way, we are also working on sending larger Emoji emoticons (try sending a red heart only in one message).

More Emoji emoticons

We don't forget the paellaemoji, nor the facepalm , nor the selfie, nor the unicorn, nor many other emoticons.And it is that Unicode 9.0 has already been officially published, expanding the current collection by 72 new drawings. Now we just have to wait for WhatsApp to integrate them in a future update. As a curious fact, it must be said that the icon of the Olympic Games is already present

GIF playback

They are the star content of the Internet. They are present in other applications and on social networks. All that remains is for WhatsApp to finish adapting them. At the moment the beta or test application of iOS has already shown how these animations will look in chats. Of course, it seems that WhatsApp will go a step further and allow you to cut them as if they were videos, or even extract the GIFof the link that the user pastes into the chat. Again, it is time to wait, although it would not be too long.

Group invitation links

They have known each other for some time, but are still waiting to arrive. With them, it is possible to create massive groups without needing to have the phone number of other contacts. It is enough for one of the administrators to create the above link and send it to another person by any means (email, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.). Simple and useful for large groups of contributions.

FixedSysSource

This is a different font than the one WhatsApp uses in its chats. A different font. It originates from Windows, so it has a most curious retro style. iOS users can use it when typing text within single quotes or an apostrophe just as you would when typing bold (asterisk ) or italics (underscore)

Mentions in group chats

You can reply to specific chat messages, thus being able to make specific reference to some content (text, image or video) even if it's old. What is being worked on now is the possibility of mentioning contacts within a group chat. Something really useful that applications such as Telegram have already tested so that no message in direct reference to another person goes unnoticed. Of course, it is not yet known if will mention others with an @, nor when this function will arrive, although it should not be too late.