ChatGPT may soon let you export stickers to WhatsApp

Making custom stickers with ChatGPT has long been possible, but exporting them into WhatsApp has always meant an awkward workaround: prompting the chatbot, downloading the image, cropping it manually, then importing it into the app.

That may soon come to an end, it appears, with all this evidence leading to the existence of a built-in "Stickers" function that appears to do away with all the effort completely.

The feature references are seen in the latest ChatGPT Android app version, while the feature itself was discovered while exploring the app’s source code. The string names found included "ChatGPT Stickers", "Add to chat apps", "Add to WhatsApp", and "Download stickers", hinting at a feature meant explicitly for exporting stickers generated by AI to messaging apps rather than creating separate images only.

How does ChatGPT's new feature work?

The code suggests that it will be possible for users to use a function called "Add to WhatsApp" to transfer the stickers they create right into WhatsApp, using them as their custom sticker pack. 

This is based on the code snippet where a minimum of three stickers is mentioned. This coincides with the policy of WhatsApp where each sticker pack must have at least three stickers.

Adding the code snippet for an intent action for registering sticker packs in WhatsApp becomes even more significant as it is through that exact method that the third-party applications send their stickers to the WhatsApp sticker library, almost like an interface.

At this stage, WhatsApp seems to be the sole platform on which this feature works. However, the phrase “Add to chat apps” hints at a possibility that in the future, it can be used for other platforms as well, such as the one developed by OpenAI.