WhatsApp has outlined a spread of just lately added options which might provide you with some further choices to assist join within the app, together with up to date picture 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 while you maintain down on the picture in-stream. The addition offers one other option 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 option to customise your chats. Now you can use the facility of Meta AI to spice up your creativity, and make customized chat themes of your personal.”
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 may 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 possibly can describe the picture that you simply’d wish to create. Meta AI will then create a visible for you, which you too can edit and customise in-stream.
Be aware that you could additionally generate video name backgrounds by way of 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 too can 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 inventive AI instruments, nevertheless it’s now getting extra choices, offering further concerns to your chats.
WhatsApp’s additionally rolling out some new sticker packs, together with Fearless Chicken and Trip units, which is able to present extra methods to specific your self.
It’s additionally making it simpler to seek for related group chats (even if you happen to can’t bear in mind the precise title of the chat):
“Now, simply seek for somebody you already know that’s within the group in your Chats tab, and it’ll show the teams you’ve 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 each one of those options are accessible within the newest model of the app.
