WhatsApp has outlined a spread of lately added options which might provide you with some further choices to assist join within the app, together with up to date photograph sharing, new chat themes, doc scanning, AI video backgrounds, and extra.
First off, WhatsApp says that each Reside Photographs (iOS) and Movement Photographs (Android) can now be shared within the app.
These are the multi-frame pictures, which transfer barely once you maintain down on the picture in-stream. The addition offers one other method to share content material on WhatsApp, which may very well 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 ability of Meta AI to spice up your creativity, and make customized chat themes of your individual.”
I imply, it is not your creativity, as such, however Meta AI’s “creativity” on this respect. However semantics apart, extra presentation choices to your chats.
You’ll be able to generate a picture to make use of as your chat theme in your chat settings in WhatsApp, by choosing Settings> Chat> Default chat theme> Create with AI.
From there, you’ll be able to describe the picture that you simply’d prefer to create. Meta AI will then create a visible for you, which you can too edit and customise in-stream.
Word which you can additionally generate video name backgrounds through the identical Meta AI course of:
“Now you should utilize Meta AI to create distinctive backgrounds to your video calls to place you in your favourite environment or attempt one thing new. You can too add AI backgrounds when taking pictures and movies straight in chats.”
WhatsApp’s extra restrictive function set has restricted its capability to combine Meta’s full scope of artistic AI instruments, however it’s now getting extra choices, offering further issues to your chats.
WhatsApp’s additionally rolling out some new sticker packs, together with Fearless Chicken 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 for those who can’t keep in mind the precise title of the chat):
“Now, simply seek for somebody you realize that’s within the group in your Chats tab, and it’ll show the teams you’ve got 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 obtainable, which ought to imply that each one of those options are accessible within the newest model of the app.
