The stickers of WhatsApp They are now available in the popular messaging app instant and in this guide we tell you how to use, send and download them in our smartphone. And it is that the stickers or stickers They represent a new alternative to the already classics emoji, custom image collections that we can use to express our ideas, feelings or intentions in a more fun way thanks to its own design and generous size. Of course, to use the stickers on our mobile we must have the application updated from the versions 2.18.329 in Android and 2.18.100 in iOS, both available as of October 25, 2018. Below, how to use and download stickers WhatsApp.
How to use WhatsApp stickers
To access the section stickers from WhatsApp we just have to Click on the smiley face icon located to the left of the text box of a chat, the native icon of the application, not the virtual keyboard of our terminal. It is the same icon that opens the options emojis and GIF.
When we access this section, the classic WhatsApp emojis will appear, although now, next to the emoji and GIF selector located at the bottom, a new access to stickers in sticker form.
Now within the stickers menu, we can select the collection that we want to use at all times thanks to the selector located at the top from the sticker gallery. They will appear more or less depending on the collections that we have previously downloaded. Just to the right will appear three extra icons with a clock, a star and a heart, or in other words, the most recently used, the favorites and those that represent emotions, respectively.
We will only need to select the one we want to send and click on it. send icon, as with an emoji or GIF. Furthermore, if we keep pressing on a sticker in the chat, the typical context menu with options as:
- Reply
- Resend
- Favorite
- Eliminate
How to download new stickers
To download new stickers for our WhatsApp account we just have to Click on the smiley face icon, click on the stickers icon under the emoji collection and access the More icon represented by a + symbol in a circle and located in the upper right corner of our sticker collections.
This action will take us to a menu with different collections of stickers grouped together with a icon of an arrow pointing down in a circle to download the collection that interests us. On the same screen Stickers, under All stickers and My stickers A Google Play or AppStore type access will appear with the message Get more stickers, which will take us to the digital sticker store with collections created by third parties.
Warning: We must be careful with what type of sticker we download on our WhatsApp, because they are created by strangers and can cause failures stability or even privacy.
How to download stickers from our contacts
There is also the possibility of downloading stickers that our contacts send us; To do this, we just have to click on the sticker that have been sent to us and that we want to add to our collection to display a context menu with three options:
- see more
- Cancel
- Add to Favorites
If we click on see more We will access the complete collection of said sticker, which will allow us to download it through the icon Discharge, along with the space that it will occupy in the storage of our terminal.
