WhatsApp will now let you format text as lists, block quotes, and code

What you need to know

• WhatsApp is adding four new text formatting options for messages, joining the existing bold, italic, strikethrough, and monospace formats.
• The new options are bullet lists, numbered lists, block quotes, and snippets of inline code. 
• These text formatting options are available now on Android, iOS, web clients, and macOS. 

Sending complex messages and text in WhatsApp is getting easier starting today (Feb. 21) because Meta is releasing an update that will add four new text formatting options. Users can now format text with bulleted lists, numbered lists, block quotes, and snippets of inline code. 

Here are the ways you can start using each new text formatting option in WhatsApp:

• Bulleted lists: You can start a bulleted list by entering the – character, and then pressing space
• Numbered lists: You can start a numbered list by typing one or two numbers, entering a period, and then pressing space
• Block quotes: You can use a block quote in text by typing the > symbol, pressing space, and then typing out the quote
• Inline code: You can write text in the inline code format by enclosing the text in single quotation marks