WhatsApp has been on a roll lately with several new features piling up in beta. Recently, we learned that WhatsApp is preparing to soon allow users to change their app theme colors. Not to mention that the rollout of the WhatsApp multi-account support feature was a huge step in improving the user experience. Now, another WABetaInfo report reveals that Android users will soon get a bunch of new WhatsApp text formatting tools to use.

According to the latest report, WhatsApp's new beta update #2.24.2.9 on Android comes with a couple of new text formatting tools. Now, with the help of these text formatting tools, WhatsApp Android users will be able to send code blocks, quote blocks, numbered lists and bulleted lists in their messages. This adds to the existing bold, italic, and strikethrough formatting options.

As you can see from the above screenshot, using specific formatting syntaxes or shortcuts, you can use this feature. Here's a quick summary of how it will work:

Talks of this feature coming to WhatsApp have been going on for quite some time, with reports starting to pour in as early as August 2023. In October 2023, another report revealed that this feature was being tested for WhatsApp web and mobile app versions. Also, while writing, we stumbled upon an official WhatsApp support page that already mentions all these formatting options.