On WhatsApp Two new functions are coming capable of increasing the level of interactivity of video calls: thanks to the reactions through emojis and the “raised hand” option, in fact, users will be more involved and will be able to intervene in the conversation in a more varied and original way without having to interrupt the speech of its interlocutor.
The news was detected for the first time by the experts of the online portal Androidauthority Inside the most recent beta version of the famous itenean messaging app, a destination for Android, i.e. 2.25.5.21: it should be accessed directly to them simply via the button with the three dots that appears in the lower bar.
As for the “Emoji reactions“It is as possible as a special and instantaneous tool to express the emotions aroused during a speech through a limited series of reaction icons, that is, the thumb at the top, the hands that have come, the heart, the face that laughs, the one that cries and finally that surprise.
It is a way of expressing itself during the conversation without breaking the thread of the interlocutor’s speech, exactly like the other function arriving, namely the “raised“: In this case, by clicking on it, the person on the other side of the phone will understand that we want to intervene and the word will pass through the concept. As it is easy to guess, the latter news of WhatsApp has been introduced above all for Make video calls more sliding In which more than one person takes part, with the aim of avoiding the overlapping of the interventions of the participants in the conversation: it will certainly prove to be useful during communications between members of the same working group.
It is not actually absolute novelty, since, for example, Google Meet or Zoom already have such functions at their disposal. For WhatsApp the most common instant messaging application in the world, it is an important step forward to improve the level of video calls, until now quite essential.
Both features are not yet accessible by everyone
Users, since it is an experimentation phase in the beta version, for which it is not yet known if when this happens they will have the same aspect of the preview shown in preview on Androidauthority.