Late last year,
Facebook started rolling out coloured statuses on its Android app that
allowed users to write their status update with a colourful background,
font, and emoji combination. Now, the same feature has been spotted on
WhatsApp as well, and while currently it’s in beta, it can be expected
to arrive for all users soon.
Android Police was
first tipped about this feature, and it is showing up in Android beta
version 2.17.291. The report states that even though you might be on
this latest version on the WhatsApp Android beta app, it is possible
that you may not see this feature. It is presumably a server side switch
from WhatsApp’s end, so only select users are seeing it now even in
beta. We can’t see it either. In any case, few users are now seeing a
floating pen icon in the Status tab at the bottom of the screen, right
above the camera icon. Clicking on the pen icon brings up the option to
type a status, choose a font, emoji, and the background colour as well.
When you’re done
writing the status and making the necessary changes, you can then hit
the green arrow key to send the text status, just like how you send
media content now. The status will then be published on WhatsApp for all
your contacts to see.
The revamped
WhatsApp Status feature was launched in February, and has managed to
achieve more than 250 million daily active users in such a short span,
much more than what Snapchat itself enjoys currently.
You can check if
you’re seeing this coloured text status feature by enrolling yourself
for the Android beta program, and updating to the latest version.
Alternatively, you can download the latest APK Mirror from here.
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