Update for WhatsApp on Android brings new emojis and more features

If you’ve noticed your Android emoji keyboard has shifted around a bit, don’t worry, you aren’t imagining things. Recently, the developers of WhatsApp rolled out two new emojis and a couple of features that have existed on beta versions.

The instant messaging app now lets you be politically correct when addressing different shades of skin tones, we’re unsure why they did this and whether it’s useful or not, we’ll leave it up to you. Other new additions include two new emojis – the spock hand sign emoji and the always appropriate middle finger.

Feature-wise, they’ve also added the option to mute contacts individually, which in the past you could only do with group chats. Marking chats as read or unread are enabled too, making double tick excuses no longer necessary. WhatsApp has somewhat fixed the issue with the calling feature, now allowing users to decrease quality of calls to lessen the data-hungry function of the app. To cap it off, the developers have also newly added support for two languages – Urdu and Bengali.

How-to mute individual contacts:

Click on a particular chat > click the three dots on the top right corner > View contact > at the middle of the page you’ll see a mute toggle

How-to mark as “unread” or “read”:

Simply hold down on a individual chat and the pop menu will let you mark as such.

Still yet to get the update? Head on over here to download it.

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