Now you can colour your WhatsApp status

NEW DELHI: Get ready for colourful status updates on WhatsApp. Earlier, this month Facebook-owned WhatsApp was reportedly testing a new feature that will allow users to post status updates with colourful background. The alleged upcoming feature was first spotted by Android Police website. The company has now started rolling out the coloured text statuses for its Android and iOS users.

Facebook too had last year introduced the same feature on its Android app. The feature allows users to have their status updates with a colourful background, font and emoji.

According to WaBetaInfo (@wabetainfo), a Twitter account that tracks changes in WhatsApp’s beta builds, the new status feature is remotely active and will soon be available for all. iPhone users will now see a pen icon placed next to the camera icon in the status bar. Users can click on the pen and then type a status then choose the background colour, emoji and font of their choice.

On the other hand, Android users will notice a floating pen icon placed in the Status tab at the bottom of the screen.

After clicking on the icon, they will get an option to type a status and select a particular font, background colour and emoji.

Apart from the coloured status, the tipster also revealed that iPhone app will now support stickers and improved chat search functionality.

The stickers are disabled for the time being but will be soon made available to the users. Moreover, WhatsApp v2.17.50 also brings the ability to italicise, bold and strikethrough the text from the typing bar for iPhone users.

The users just have to tap and hold the word and then select an option.-GADGETSNOW