Cool idea elevator pitch:
- You probably know the general location of your most-used emojis by heart
- You probably don’t use stickers that much
- What if when you use an emoji, WhatsApp could recommend an associated sticker?
Boom. There it is. A floating menu appears on top and if you’d like to, you can tap any of the recommended stickers in order to replace your boring emoji with it instantly.
Let’s be honest: switching panes in order to use stickers is a pain. But if I select an emoji and get some neat recommendations, I might actually start using stickers instead. While this release doesn’t exactly solve any tier-one world-crisis level of issues — which, to be frank, WhatsApp doesn’t have that many of — it does something else that is really important: it saves you time. And any update to a thing’s UI that can do that for the user is just fine by me.
As of now, this update is available only to the WhatsApp Beta participants on Android. While we don’t know when it will be rolled out for the public, we’re certainly happy to know that it’s on the horizon.
