New WhatsApp feature: Your chats' fun quotient set to soar; Animated Stickers on way

New WhatsApp feature: Even with new social media platforms coming up every day, WhatsApp has managed to stay on top of the food chain for almost about a decade. A large part of WhatsApp’s success goes to platform’s ability to improve user experience on a daily basis by bringing in updates and new features. The Facebook-owned platform now plans to make your chats more fun by introducing a new feature. \

The messaging platform is expected to launch support for Animated Stickers. The feature was first spotted by WABetaInfo, a website that tracks the latest updates on the beta version of the application. As the name suggests, the new feature will allow users to send animated stickers once the update rolls out to a broader audience. 

In order to use the new feature, WhatsApp Beta users will have to upgrade to version 2.20.194.7 in Android and 2.20.70.26 in iOS or newer updates, according to the update tracker. Once updated, the platform will automatically show you Animated stickers in the chat window. 

In case it doesn’t work, you will be needed to uninstall the app and download it again. However, you should back the chat history before doing so. Otherwise, you may end up losing all your data. 

Once operational, there will be three ways to use this feature. First, is by downloading or saving the animated stickers you receive. Second, the user can import these stickers from third parties that have their own animated stickers packs and third, users can download default animated sticker packs from the WhatsApp Store.

The feature is only available in the beta version right now but should be available for public use in future.