WhatsApp is finally rolling out one of its smallest but most awaited features chat reactions.

It’s free, every week, in your inbox.

Youll see the emoji reaction counter at the bottom of the message.

How to use emoji reactions on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

As shown in the screenshot above, you have a choice of six emojis to react to messages.

I feel one of the unusual use cases for emoji reaction could be polls.

WhatsApp is rumored to be working ona dedicated polls feature, but we dont know when that will arrive.

WhatsApp desktop has a cute little emoji sign next to each message for reactions.

Thumbs up if youre in, and thumbs down if youre not.

But you get more options.

In Telegram, you get 16 emoji as reactions.

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Signal is better: it lets you use all emoji as reactions.

That should bring WhatsApp on par with Telegram when it comes to their group texting and productivity capabilities.

That’s one heck of a mixed bag.

Telegram lets you react with 16 emoji

He likes to say “Bleh.

That’s one heck of a mixed bag.

He likes to say “Bleh.”

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