Meta Rolls Out WhatsApp Updates, Including AI-Generated Backgrounds

Meta rolls out new WhatsApp updates, including AI-generated chat backgrounds, improved personalisation, and a different messaging experience across the app.

WhatsApp has announced its new features that focus on bridging users together and unleashing creativity within the app. These updates get live and motion photos support, AI-powered chat themes, customizable video calling backgrounds, group chat search improvements, new sticker packs, and document scanning on Android.

New WhatsApp Features

WhatsApp has also recently given iOS users the ability to share Live Photos, as well as Motion Photos on Android. These multi-frame images are static in captions, but they come to life when you press them in chats, which is a fun feature for image sharing.

Following up on the aforementioned chat theme feature, WhatsApp has introduced the ability to create custom chat themes using Meta AI. As WhatsApp explains:

According to WhatsApp,

“Earlier this year, we introduced chat themes as a way to customize your chats. You can now use the power of Meta AI to boost your creativity, and make custom chat themes of your own.”

By going to Settings > Chat > Default chat theme > Create with AI, users can describe what they want to create, and MO will generate a visual theme based on the text, utilizing AI to develop and modify the design.

Meta AI features have now been expanded to video calls on WhatsApp:

“Now you can use Meta AI to create unique backgrounds for your video calls to put you in your favorite surroundings or try something new. You can also add AI backgrounds when taking photos and videos directly in chats.”

New Sticker Packs for More Expressive Expression

As for the stickers, the app is adding new sticker collections, such as Fearless Bird and Vacation, which provide users with novel ways to express themselves visually during chats.

Group chats you share, searches are now simpler. For example, if you recall a common group, even if you have never used it before, now when you type the name of any contact, it will show all common groups.

“Now, just search for someone you know that’s in the group in your Chats tab, and it will display the groups you have in common.”

After introducing document scanning to its iOS app in April, WhatsApp is now rolling out the feature to its Android app, allowing users to scan and share documents within the same conversation.

Although some of these features were announced in earlier limited releases, they are now widely incorporated into the newest version of WhatsApp, making them available to every user.

Final Thought

More granular improvements to WhatsApp by Meta would represent a blend of its gradual trenches of AI-powered creativity and modern user demands for more efficient communications at the same, new individual scale at this juncture of digital content creation as well as distribution.