WhatsApp has outlined a spread of not too long ago added options which might offer you some extra choices to assist join within the app, together with up to date picture sharing, new chat themes, doc scanning, AI video backgrounds, and extra.
First off, WhatsApp says that each Stay Photographs (iOS) and Movement Photographs (Android) can now be shared within the app.
These are the multi-frame pictures, which transfer barely while you maintain down on the picture in-stream. The addition supplies one other method to share content material on WhatsApp, which could possibly be an attention-grabbing engagement replace.
WhatsApp’s additionally confirmed that its new chat themes, powered by Meta AI, can be found to all customers.
As per WhatsApp:
“Earlier this yr, we launched chat themes as a method to customise your chats. Now you can use the facility of Meta AI to spice up your creativity, and make customized chat themes of your individual.”
I imply, it isn’t your creativity, as such, however Meta AI’s “creativity” on this respect. However semantics apart, extra presentation choices in your chats.
You possibly can generate a picture to make use of as your chat theme in your chat settings in WhatsApp, by deciding on Settings> Chat> Default chat theme> Create with AI.
From there, you’ll be able to describe the picture that you just’d prefer to create. Meta AI will then create a visible for you, which you too can edit and customise in-stream.
Be aware which you can additionally generate video name backgrounds by way of the identical Meta AI course of:
“Now you should use Meta AI to create distinctive backgrounds in your video calls to place you in your favourite environment or strive one thing new. You may as well add AI backgrounds when taking images and movies instantly in chats.”
WhatsApp’s extra restrictive characteristic set has restricted its capability to combine Meta’s full scope of inventive AI instruments, however it’s now getting extra choices, offering extra issues in your chats.
WhatsApp’s additionally rolling out some new sticker packs, together with Fearless Fowl and Trip units, which can present extra methods to precise your self.
It’s additionally making it simpler to seek for related group chats (even in case you can’t bear in mind the precise identify of the chat):
“Now, simply seek for somebody you already know that’s within the group in your Chats tab, and it’ll show the teams you might have in frequent.”
Lastly, WhatsApp’s additionally including doc scanning on Android (it added this on iOS again in April).
A few of these options had already been introduced, however they’re now extra broadly accessible, which ought to imply that each one of those options are accessible within the newest model of the app.
