# WhatsApp Provides Music for Standing Updates

WhatsApp has formally launched its new music possibility for Standing updates, which can allow customers to share well-liked music clips to accompany their Tales-like updates.

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, now, you’ll be capable of add a soundtrack to your private updates through Standing posts.

As defined by WhatsApp:

“When making a Standing, you’ll now see a music be aware icon on the high of your display screen. Faucet it, and also you’ll unlock a library of songs to select from – whether or not it’s in the present day’s high hits, one thing new, or the earworm that’s caught in your head. Select the precise a part of the track that matches your second – as much as 15 seconds for a photograph and as much as 60 seconds for a video.”

So it’s principally the identical because the music sharing capability inside Instagram or Fb Tales, offering one other method to interact with music within the app.

WhatsApp’s been creating its personal music sharing choices for the previous few months, with some reverse engineering people extracting the code for this performance just a few weeks again.

So it’s not an enormous shock that it’s now advancing to an official launch, although the incorporation of Meta’s full music library gives you much more sound choices to select from on your updates.

Meta’s been trying so as to add extra music components general, and on Instagram specifically, as a way to faucet into the engagement that music drives on TikTok, which stays beneath menace within the U.S.

With TikTok’s future nonetheless up within the air, Meta’s been seeking to construct extra music-related instruments, like songs on IG profiles, “Add Yours” music stickers, music in Notes, track lyric shows in Reels, a music sharing sticker for DMs, and extra. That would make IG a extra viable alternative for music engagement if TikTok does go away, and constructing related on WhatsApp may even have related worth, in lots of extra areas.

WhatsApp is the preferred messaging app on the planet, and has been gaining momentum within the U.S. With that in thoughts, that is one other manner for Meta to faucet into the engagement and interplay round music in its apps, which may assist it fend off competitors from TikTok, and/or act as a alternative, in case TikTok does disappear.

Both manner, one other consideration on your WhatsApp Tales… I imply, Standing updates.

WhatsApp says that it is rolling out its new music choices over the subsequent few weeks.