WhatsApp announced a major change today for users iPhone and Android from all over the world, this will have an effect on the way we use the messaging platform. WhatsApp is one of the largest messaging platforms on the planet, and today's announcement is a very important one because it affects all users who use the application to communicate every day.
WhatsApp has announced that it will implement its own set of emoji characters on the platform for iPhone and iPad users, which is different from the one used until now. The change made by WhatsApp is very important because, as you can see in the images below, the emoji characters that we will send using the application will be different from the ones we used to see on our phones until now.
WhatsApp has already implemented the new emoji characters in the Android version of its application, and so we have the opportunity to see how the emoji characters look. These are quite similar to those used in iOS by the Apple company and taken from Emojipedia, so WhatsApp will practically have a set of standardized emoji characters that will make it easier to display on various mobile platforms.
WhatsApp - the major change announced today
WhatsApp is making this change to give users new reasons to open the application and try the new features that are available for it. In general, companies of this kind offer new functions to give users reasons to return to their applications, and for WhatsApp, the implementation of new emoji means no reason to have conversations with our friends.
WhatsApp claims that 1 billion messages are sent daily on its platform, and this means that a lot of emoji characters are used for communication. WhatsApp did not say how many emoji characters are used in the messages sent by users, but we are certainly talking about a figure large enough to motivate the complete change of the emoji characters displayed in the application.
WhatsApp has implemented this change for now only in the Android version of the application, a sign that it wants to test it with users before deciding whether to offer it officially. The change made by the WhatsApp company today for the application will reach you in iOS at some point, and the standard emoji characters that you know at this moment are going to be modified with those that the company owned by Facebook intends to offer.
