WhatsApp has outlined a variety of not too long ago added options which may offer you 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 Stay Images (iOS) and Movement Images (Android) can now be shared within the app.
These are the multi-frame photographs, which transfer barely once you maintain down on the picture in-stream. The addition gives 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 12 months, 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 on 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 deciding on Settings> Chat> Default chat theme> Create with AI.
From there, you may describe the picture that you simply’d wish to create. Meta AI will then create a visible for you, which you can even edit and customise in-stream.
Observe that you could additionally generate video name backgrounds by way of the identical Meta AI course of:
“Now you need to use Meta AI to create distinctive backgrounds on your video calls to place you in your favourite environment or strive one thing new. It’s also possible to add AI backgrounds when taking pictures and movies instantly in chats.”
WhatsApp’s extra restrictive function set has restricted its capability to combine Meta’s full scope of artistic AI instruments, but it surely’s now getting extra choices, offering further issues on 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 in the event you can’t bear in mind the precise identify of the chat):
“Now, simply seek for somebody that’s within the group in your Chats tab, and it’ll show the teams you might have in widespread.”
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 every one of those options are accessible within the newest model of the app.
