New for WhatsApp, which has just launched the ability to create custom stickers within chats. The messaging app owned by Meta, the parent company presented by Zuckerberg to incorporate all Facebook and subsidiary projects, has released the function for the web version of WhatsApp, accessible from any computer browser. The stickers, while not exclusive to a particular message service, have allowed competing platforms, such as Telegram, to grow in popularity. Until now, WhatsApp allowed you to attach stickers in chat made by third-party applications, while with today's move the intention is to more centralize the use by subscribers of a single ecosystem.
The addition of personalized stickers, for now only from the web, is accessible by opening the section on sending a sticker and then clicking on the "create" button. At that point, you are asked to load an image from the hard drive, from which to obtain the sticker, possibly to be edited in dimensions, frames, texts, freehand drawings and more (even a sticker on the sticker). Unlike messages, photos and videos sent to contacts, personalized stickers are not synchronized with the smartphone. That is: those sent by the browser, if born from an image on the phone, will be visible only from the computer used and not also on the phone of the same sender. In the same way, the recipient of the sticker will only be able to view it with an access from the WhatsApp client via the web. At the moment,the company has not disclosed information on the launch of the feature even for the Android and iOS apps.