“We’re bringing avatars to WhatsApp! Now you can use your avatar as a sticker in chats. The personalised avatar can be used as profile photo or as custom stickers expressing diverse emotions and actions. WhatsApp launched Avatars on 7 December for all users around the world.Īn avatar is essentially a user-created digital version of themselves. Here are the new WhatsApp features and updates for 2022: Avatars Image credit: WhatsApp With this, users could send photographs, without worrying about it taking space in your phone.
Additionally, in August 2021, the company rolled out the ‘View Once’ option, which made chats disappear after they were opened. Other updates made to the app include WhatsApp Web, which launched in 2015, and end-to-end encryption, stickers, group calling and UPI payments introduced till 2018. Thus, with enhancing usability, WhatsApp has become one of the fastest mediums for keeping in touch with loved ones via chats and video and audio calls, as well as to engage audiences and accelerate sales through features like WhatsApp Business.
Like Instagram, many changes in the app have been attributed to its acquisition by Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in 2014. But before we get to the WhatsApp updates in 2022, let’s have a look at some earlier ones.
Today, the app has become so much more than that, owing to its interface and the regular updates it undergoes. In 2009, two ex-Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum launched WhatsApp as a one-to-one chat app service.
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