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If you want to change up the look of your WhatsApp messages then a simple way to do it is swap the font around.
Not many people know about the function, but it’s a quick way to give your chats a bit of customisation.
The company quietly rolled out the new font – called FixedSys – and it’s easily activated by adding a certain character before and after your message.
All you have to do is add three ` characters to your conversation.
So, for example, you could say “`How’s it going?“` – and your message would be converted into the new font.
We tried it for ourselves and can confirm that it does work.
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However, if you’re using an iPhone, you may struggle to find this character as it’s not included on the default iOS keyboard – you’ll have to download another keyboard from the App store.
All you have to do is add asterisks either side of a word to make it bold or underscores to make it italic.
So, for example, typing *bold* would give you bold and typing _italic_ would give youitalic.
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