WhatsApp has now finally introduced animated Avatars for beta users, it allowed users to create custom stickers and profile pictures in a cartoon format. Just like third-party systems, these new animated avatars are categorized with several categories and expressions. These include happy, funny, angry, cheerful, and so on.
For your information, if you have ever used Bitmoji on Snapchat, so the feature is similar in WhatsApp as well. In WhatsApp, the company has added animations with an extra layer of feelings.
According to the latest information from WAbetainfo, the latest update is rolling out with the app versions 2.23.16.3 and 2.23.16.12, with the possibility of configuring group conversation permissions during group creation and animated personal avatars.
WhatsApp enhances the management of group chat permissions
Group conversations represent a pillar on which the communication of WhatsApp users is based and, consequently, the management of permissions within them is of vital importance for the peaceful life of its participants. Well, the beta version of the application is introducing, as mentioned, the possibility of modifying and managing the permissions of the groups directly during the creation of the same, giving its administrators greater control.
Until now, in fact, the management and modification of permissions were allowed only following the creation of a group, making the operation more cumbersome for its managers who often ended up forgetting it, caught up in the onboarding operations of new participants.
📝 WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.16.12: what’s new?
WhatsApp is rolling out an animated avatar feature, and it is available to some beta testers!https://t.co/SChCm2Syqk pic.twitter.com/QgCpZV80iA
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) August 2, 2023
How to create?
WhatsApp has officially shared a tutorial for using these new features, so from the document, users should have their avatars set up on their WhatsApp accounts. This can be done by going into Settings > Avatar > Create your Avatar. Once the avatar is created, users on the latest beta version of WhatsApp will see an extra tab next to the emoji, sticker, and GIF section.