WhatsApp has outlined a spread of just lately added options which might offer you some extra 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 Pictures (iOS) and Movement Pictures (Android) can now be shared within the app.
These are the multi-frame photos, which transfer barely once you maintain down on the picture in-stream. The addition gives one other solution 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 solution 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 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 prefer to create. Meta AI will then create a visible for you, which you can even edit and customise in-stream.
Observe which you could additionally generate video name backgrounds by way of the identical Meta AI course of:
“Now you should use Meta AI to create distinctive backgrounds on 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 instantly in chats.”
WhatsApp’s extra restrictive characteristic set has restricted its capability to combine Meta’s full scope of artistic AI instruments, but it surely’s now getting extra choices, offering extra issues on your chats.
WhatsApp’s additionally rolling out some new sticker packs, together with Fearless Hen 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 in case you can’t bear in mind the precise identify 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 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 out there, which ought to imply that every one of those options are accessible within the newest model of the app.
