WhatsApp: how to use, send and download the new stickers

The stickers de WhatsApp are now available on the famous messaging app instantly and in this guide, tell you how from use them, send them and download them on our smartphone . And do the stickers or stickers represent a new alternative to emoji already classic , collections of custom images that we can use to express our ideas, feelings or intentions in a more fun way thanks to their own design and generous size. Of course, to use the stickers on our mobile, we need to update the app from the versions 2.18.329 on Androidet 2.18.100 on iOS , both available from October 25, 2018. Here is how to use and download the stickers WhatsApp .

How to use WhatsApp stickers

To access the section of stickers WhatsApp , simply click on the smiley 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 emoji et 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 sticker access will appear as a sticker .

Once in the stickers menu, you can select the collection you want to use at any time using the selector located at the top from the sticker gallery. They will appear more or less depending on the collections we have previously uploaded. Just to the right will appear three additional icons with a clock, a star and a heart, or whatever is the same, the most recently used, favorites and those that represent emotions, respectively.

Just select the one we want to send and click on the send icon , like with an emoji or a GIF. Also, if we keep the pressure on a chat sticker, the Contextual menu typical will appear with options such that:

• Reply
• return
• Favorite
• Remove

How to download new stickers

To download new stickers for our WhatsApp account, just click on the smiley icon , click on the stickers icon under the emoji collection and go to the plus icon represented by a + symbol in a circle and located in the top right corner of our sticker collections.

This action will take us to a menu with different collections of stickers grouped together with a arrow pointing down icon in a circle to download the collection that interests us. On the same screen stickers , sous All stickers et My stickers, 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.

Please note:: we have to pay attention to the type of sticker that we download on our WhatsApp, because they are created by strangers and can lead to problems of stability, even of confidentiality.

How to download stickers from our contacts

There is also the possibility to download stickers that our contacts send to us; To do this, just click on the sticker that was 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 via the icon Download , next to the space that will occupy the storage of our terminal.