WhatsApp Status updates are getting beefed up, thanks to a new feature drop announced by the company. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform will soon roll out four new Status update features, which will be available to all users in the coming months.
For starters, you can create a photo collage of up to six images using the Layout feature and arrange them in your preferred way. It's complemented by a new Photo Stickers feature that turns a photo into a custom sticker, which you can add to your status update. Again, you can edit, resize, or reposition a custom photo sticker directly from the Status post creation interface.
Just like Layout, Instagram's Add Yours sticker format is also making its way to WhatsApp Status. You can choose an image, write a prompt, and invite your friends to respond by sharing it as their WhatsApp Status with their take on the topic.
WhatsApp already lets you add music to status updates with photos or videos. Support for soundtracks, similar to Facebook and Instagram, was added to WhatsApp earlier this year. Now, it's building on the experience with a new tool to post Status updates focused entirely on a particular song. You can share a song as your status or turn that song into a sticker and add it to a separate status post.
You can try out these new features when they arrive on your Android or iOS device. WhatsApp Status is like the Stories feature on Instagram; it disappears after 24 hours of posting. It's accessible via the Updates tab in the WhatsApp app.
The new features have arrived just days after WhatsApp launched its native app for iPad. In recent updates, WhatsApp has also added a new Advanced Chat Privacy feature designed to keep conversations within the instant messaging app.
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