Whatsapp is now rolling out the ability to react to a message with emoji, as well as share files that are up to 2GB in size. The company also announced on Thursday that it’ll be doubling the maximum size of group chats.
Meta said that you’d be able to use a select few to start out with but that support for’all emojis and skin-tones’ will be added in the future.
Whatsapp is expanding the maximum size of group chats. The cap is going from 256 to 256. There have reportedly been hack-y workarounds to get past the previous limit.
The company expects reactions to be rolled out to everyone in’about a week’. Emoji reactions and increased file size limits are becoming available in the current version of the app.