Custom emoji?
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How To Add or Edit WhatsApp Custom Emoticons
..Except whatsapp doesn't literally send the images back and forth when you use emoticons, it just sends a reference? If you edited your own copy of whatsapp, the recipient would still see the regular emoticon. Pointless.
More on reddit.comEmoji hotkeys on WhatsApp web
I extracted this list from the JavaScript code, so I assume this is all they support so far.
(y) = 👍
(n) = 👎
:-) = 🙂
:-( = 🙁
:-p = 😛
:-| = 😐
:-\= 😕
:-d =
:-* = 😘
<3 = ❤
^_^ = 😁
>_< = 😆
;-) = 😉
More on reddit.comCan you disable emoji reactions on WhatsApp?
Unfortunately, you cannot turn off reaction emojis in your WhatsApp chats. You can only disable notifications about the reactions and stop receiving them as message notifications.
Can you hide reaction emojis on your WhatsApp messages from other users?
No, you can’t hide emoji reactions to your messages on WhatsApp. All the reactions to your and other users’ messages are available to everyone in the chat.
Can you customize the first six emojis that appear on WhatsApp’s message reactions?
Although it sounds like a neat feature, customizing the reaction emojis that appear when you long-press a message isn’t an available feature.
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Is there a way to create your own emoji from photos? I'm not talking about strickers but emojis to put in the text instead of yellow smileys, thanks to anyone who can give me an answer