How to create your Avatar on WhatsApp and send it to contacts [VIDEO]

Social media platform WhatsApp has introduced a new exciting feature to make the platform more interactive and fun to use.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of avatars, offering a new fast and fun way to connect with friends and family.

Expression

Zuckerberg said avatars is a new and personalised way to express yourself.

“We’re bringing avatars to WhatsApp! Now you can use your avatar as a sticker in chats. More styles coming soon across all our apps.”

Your avatar is a digital version of you that can be created from billions of combinations of diverse hair styles, facial features, and outfits. On WhatsApp you can now use your personalised avatar as your profile photo or choose from one of 36 custom stickers reflecting many different emotions and actions.

Privacy

WhatsApp said avatars can also be a great way to represent yourself without using your real photo so it feels more private.

“For many people this will be the first time creating an avatar and we’ll continue to deliver style enhancements including lighting, shading, hair style textures, and more that will make avatars even better over time.”

“You can now create a personalised avatar and use it as your WhatsApp profile photo so it feels more private than your real photo, or choose to share as one of 36 custom stickers,” WhatsApp said.

Avatars is currently in all countries including South Africa.

How to

How to use avatars on WhatsApp

• Tap Settings.
• Tap Avatar > Create Your Avatar.
• Follow the steps to create your avatar.
• Tap Done.

WhatsApp communities

In November, WhatsApp officially launched Communities, a new feature offering larger, more structured discussion groups that first entered into testing earlier this year.

Communities is designed to help organisations, clubs, schools, and other private groups better communicate and stay organised.

It also brought a number of new features to the messaging platform, including admin controls, support for sub-groups and announcement groups, 32-person voice and video calls, larger file sharing, emoji reactions and polls.

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