{"id":184757,"date":"2022-03-03T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=184757"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:54:49","slug":"whatsapp-messages-with-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-messages-with-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"You can soon react to WhatsApp messages with emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp for Desktop<\/a> is currently developing a new <strong>message reaction<\/strong> <strong>feature <\/strong>so you can finally reply without having to type back. So far, they\u2019re working on different elements of the feature, like viewing reaction info and using another button to react to messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/search-whatsapp-messages-contact-info-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"WhatsApp Beta feature was previously announced\">WhatsApp Beta feature was previously announced<\/a> to be in development for the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp-beta.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp Beta for Android<\/a> and iOS platforms. This particular feature has long been overdue for the popular messaging app, so it\u2019s exciting to finally see progress being made on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As reported before, the message reaction feature is planned to be just like what WhatsApp\u2019s rivals have: the ability to react directly to a message using one of the six default emojis available. You can either use the <strong>dedicated emoji button<\/strong> that appears next to a message when your cursor hovers over it or the &#8220;<strong>React to message<\/strong>\u201d option from a drop-down menu on the message bubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the feature plans to have a <strong>reaction info<\/strong> window pop up when you click on an emoji reaction. This will display the number of times the emoji was used and who sent it, which is pretty helpful if you\u2019re in a group chat and many users give out reactions. Currently, it\u2019s the <strong>heart emoji<\/strong> being tested for such things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since it\u2019s still in development, beta testers will need to wait a while before they can try it\u2014although it\u2019s expected that the Android and iOS versions will have it out first. Regardless of when it\u2019ll be ready for a beta release, it\u2019s definitely on the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/whatsapp-features-looking-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list of things Whatsapp users look forward to this year<\/a>. <br><br><em>Image credit: WABetaInfo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp for Desktop is currently developing a new message reaction feature so you can finally reply without having to type back. So far, they\u2019re working on different elements of the feature, like viewing reaction info and using another button to react to messages. This WhatsApp Beta feature was previously announced to be in development for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-messages-with-emojis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can soon react to WhatsApp messages with emojis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9229,"featured_media":184758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-184757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324314,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184757\/revisions\/324314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184757"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=184757"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=184757"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=184757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}