Stop Everything! WhatsApp Just Introduced Bold, Italics and Strikethrough Text

​WhatsApp has almost as many text options as a word processor following its latest update.

The Facebook-owned messaging service has just introduced bold, italics and strikethrough text to punctuate your conversations.

To embolden text, place an asterisk on either side of the message. For example, *bold*.

For italics, do the same thing with underscores instead of asterisks and place tildes (those squiggly hyphens) on each side of the message for strikethrough text.

It is also possible to combine these effects if you want to get really creative. For instance, _*bolditalics*_ will make your message both bold and italic, in case you hadn't already guessed.

Another new feature included in the update is Google Drive integration, which allows users to share files stored on the cloud service.

The update should find its way to iOS and Android automatically, taking the former to version 2.12.17 and the latter to version 2.12.535.