What You Need To Know About WhatsApp’s Snapchat-Style Filters
WhatsApp Cam Reportedly Testing Snapchat-Like Camera Effects With Filters and Backgrounds.WhatsApp for Android could soon be blessed with a new feature that will make video calls and capturing images within the app even more exciting. According to a feature tracker, an instant messaging platform is testing camera effects. The said new feature will add filters, backgrounds, and other effects to the users’ faces when they capture an image or while on a video call. While some of them are activated by the user himself, others auto-activate through expressions and gestures. (WhatsApp’s Snapchat-Style Filters)
WhatsApp Camera Effects Feature (WhatsApp’s Snapchat-Style Filters)
The WABetaInfo feature tracker report shows the appearance of the feature on WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.24.22.10, available in the Play Store. The feature is reportedly being made visible in the beta version but only for a few beta testers at present.
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As per the screenshots, the feature tracker has shared that there’s an option to turn on or off the new feature in Privacy settings inside the app. There’s a new setting in the settings- Allow camera effects which can be enabled or disabled. According to the text of the feature “To give you a more interactive experience, some effects will mimic your face and hands.”.
Describing further, the feature would be accessible when using the camera to click pictures or for video calls. Revealing the tracker of features, some of these effects turn out to be given automatically depending upon the facial expressions of users, hand gestures, and movements, and so on. Others are said to be applied manually using options visible on the display.
Though said to be controlled directly from the privacy settings, the feature can also be enabled or disabled directly from the camera screen and video call interface for easy access by the users. The feature tracker also pointed out that the effects on the camera do not compromise any encryption protocols and that video calls, even when turned on, remain end-to-end encrypted.
