After testing and testing the feature with beta users for a couple of months, WhatsApp has now started rolling out the ability to react to messages in a conversation with an emoji. Yes, you heard right. Just like Instagram and Messenger, you can now choose not to write a reply, but instead react to messages with an emoji to express how you feel about them. The emoji reaction feature is now reaching all iOS, Android and desktop/web users of WhatApp, so let's learn how to use this feature. Here's how to react to a message with an emoji on WhatsApp.

As the name suggests, the emoji reaction feature allows you to quickly react to specific messages with emojis and share your opinion without flooding the chat with new messages. This means you can simply use the face with tears of joy emoji to react to a funny message or a thumbs up to confirm a message sent in a group conversation.

This is a simple feature that has been in apps like Instagram and Messenger for years. It has finally reached WhatsApp to create parity between the Meta (formerly Facebook) owned messaging apps. There is no steep learning curve for this feature, so let's learn how to use it.

WhatsApp currently offers six emojis that you can use to react to messages in a conversation, and they are: