WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out new updates to Wallpapers while making several changes to the Stickers features as well. The new update adds four improvements to WhatsApp wallpapers including a separate ‘Bright’ and ‘Dark’ mode for a better chat experience. Along with this, the instant messaging platform has added new wallpapers for the users as well.  

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“This week we are starting to release some new updates to WhatsApp, including improvements to Wallpapers, the launch of a search feature for Stickers and a new animated sticker pack. Wallpapers on WhatsApp are seeing four major updates - custom chat wallpapers, additional doodle wallpapers, an updated stock wallpaper gallery, and the ability to set separate wallpapers for light and dark mode settings,” the company said in a statement. 

Here are the new WhatsApp Updates: 

Wallpapers

  1. Custom chat wallpapers – This will allow you to add customised wallpapers to chats, making them distinguishable.  
  2. Doodle wallpapers - Love our default doodle wallpaper? You can now find them in more colours. 
  3. New wallpapers – The platform says it has selected new, diverse, and iconic images of nature and architecture from around the world, as well as eye-catching new designs.  
  4. Separate light/dark mode wallpapers - You can now set a separate wallpaper in dark mode for the best chat experience.  

Improved Sticker Search 

You can easily search and find your stickers with text or emoji, or browse through common sticker categories. WhatsApp says it encourages sticker app creators to tag their stickers with emojis and text moving forward, so their stickers are searchable for WhatsApp users. 

New Animated WHO Sticker Pack 

The World’s Health Organization’s “Together at Home” sticker pack is now available as animated stickers. Together at Home has been one of the most popular sticker packs across WhatsApp, and will now be even more expressive and useful in its animated form. The “Together at Home” sticker pack is available within WhatsApp, including with text localized for 9 languages - Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.