After waiting for months, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp has finally launched message reactions. It was May 5, 2022, when Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature via his Facebook and Instagram accounts. Since then, the feature is rolling out to WhatsApp users around the world. Keep reading to know more about how to react to messages on WhatsApp.

The message reaction feature on WhatsApp was announced with another feature called Communities, which will roll out for users in the near future. In the official blog post, WhatsApp mentioned that "emoji reactions are coming to WhatsApp so people can quickly share their opinion without flooding chats with new messages." Now that the feature is available, users can avoid typing short messages for reacting to something sent by another user.