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WhatsApp introduces its own emoji set in the latest Android beta v2.17.364

Rita El Khoury2017/10/03
1:36am PDTOct 3, 2017

WhatsApp introduces its own emoji set in the latest Android beta v2.17.364

WhatsApp has always used iOS' emoji designs and fonts in all of its apps. Whether you're on iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, or desktop, you would see the same emojis independent of your device's built-in emojis. That created a unified approach to avoid any confusing moments like, "you sent me a gun!" and "I said it was a water gun!" However, it looks like WhatsApp is now breaking the shackles of its iOS emojis... somewhat.

In the latest Android beta v2.17.364, WhatsApp introduced a new set of emojis that are its very own. They look like iOS and Android Oreo emojis had a baby and from every comment we received, no one is enthused about them.

[Update: Changelog, New Languages, Android M Permissions] WhatsApp 2.12.441 Goes Live In The Play Store With AllTheEmojis

Rita El Khoury2016/02/17
1:00am PSTFeb 17, 2016

[Update: Changelog, New Languages, Android M Permissions] WhatsApp 2.12.441 Goes Live In The Play Store With AllTheEmojis

Update
The app received another minor update in the Play Store today to version 2.12.453 (which you can also find on APK Mirror) and the changelog has been updated to mention

It's almost Valentine's and what more of a perfect gift could WhatsApp give its users than dozens upon dozens of brand new emojis they can use to express all of their emotions and deep feelings? Those cool drawings had been donning the WhatsApp beta for over two months but they're now ready to deck the emoji panel of every WhatsApp user through an update to the stable Play Store release of the app.

[Sign Of The Horns] WhatsApp Adds Dozens Of New Emojis On Android

Rita El Khoury2015/12/03
3:29am PSTDec 3, 2015

[Sign Of The Horns] WhatsApp Adds Dozens Of New Emojis On Android

It was just a matter of time. Emojis are an intricate part of how we communicate nowadays and every OS is trying to catch up with the latest updates and additions to Unicode. iOS 9.1 added tons of emojis, Android is about to get them soon, WhatsApp followed Apple's trail on iOS and Web, and now it's ready to start rolling these emojis to its Android client.

Version 2.12.372 (followed by a likely bug fix in 2.12.373), which is released by the company for testing on its site before global rollout on the Play Store, reorganized the emojis into new categories and added dozens upon dozens of new ones, similar to what you must have seen if you use WhatsApp Web or the iPhone app.

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