The different instant messaging applications that we can use today are becoming essential communication elements for many. WhatsApp stands out for its enormous market penetration and use, hence the constant updates and improvements it receives periodically, as is the case now.
Right now we have the possibility of communicating with users of the platform from all over the world in different ways. Apart from the conventional text and its messages, we can use voice calls or video conference, For example. However, the aforementioned text messages and sharing of links or files is still the most common method.
Hence, Meta, the company behind the development of WhatsApp, continues to improve this communication mode. On many occasions we receive a huge variety of multimedia content, something increasingly common. Here we refer to the photos, videos or audio messages that appear in chats. Well, we will tell you that a new button is now being prepared to be able to react and respond to that specific content in a much faster and more effective way.
Specifically, we are referring to a new button that gives us access to the quick reactions to multimedia content that we receive. It should be noted that this is a button that will automatically appear next to the response bar when we receive a photo, animated GIF or video. In addition to the default response elements, we find a button that is represented by the + sign and that serves to access more options of this type.
This is how the WhatsApp response bar improves to the current one
As you can imagine, this new function in the form of a button substantially improves our accessibility when communicating with others through multimedia content.
The main advantage of this novelty that we are mentioning is that we will have a total of six predetermined reactions in the photo and video viewer. This way we can react to them directly with any of these options without having to leave that viewer as has happened to date. This allows us to communicate in a more fluid way when sharing this type of content, specifically with our friends and family.
In addition, until now we had to exit this viewing window and press and hold the message to be able to react to it. With this update that will reach us all shortly, we save these steps to react to those contents directly. Of course, we must keep in mind that at the moment this is a function that is in the testing period and can only be used in the WhatsApp beta version.
But everything indicates that it will soon reach all users in the stable version of the application so that we can benefit from the new function. This mode of operation is quite common on the part of Meta, which first tests new functions with a certain group of users. If everything goes well, which happens in most cases, then it makes this new feature available to everyone, as happens with this reaction bar to multimedia content.
