New year, new ways to chat on WhatsApp

January 2025 Update

New year, new ways to chat on WhatsApp

We’re always working on making WhatsApp easier to use and more fun, so we’re excited to kick off the new year with a variety of new features and design improvements.

• Camera effects: You loved the effects we launched on video calls last year. Now, when you take and send a video or photo in your chats, you can choose from the same 30 backgrounds, filters and effects to transform your shots.
• Selfie stickers: For fans of custom stickers, now you can turn your selfie straight into a sticker. Just tap the sticker on create sticker and you’ll see the camera option to take a selfie and create your sticker. Available on Android and coming to iOS soon.
• Share a sticker pack: Spotted a sticker pack you know your friend will love? Now you can easily share them directly in your chats.
• Quicker reactions: Now you can double tap a message to react and quickly scroll through your most-used reactions.
  We’re looking forward to introducing more exciting features this year, while offering private, secure messaging wherever you are in the world.