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WhatsApp will soon look more like Snapchat.

The Yoshihiro Tanbara Archivesmessaging app introduced a set of new camera features Monday that allow you to add Snapchat-like doodles, emoji and text to your photos and videos.

SEE ALSO: 5 Snapchat settings you should change right now

The update is starting to roll out to the app's Android users now and will be available to iPhone users "soon," according to the company.

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With the change, you'll be able to add doodles, text, emoji and captions to photos and videos you shoot and share them within the app. You can also change the color and font of the captions you add to your images.

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The update is also adding front-facing flash to WhatsApp's in-app camera, which should make for better (or, at least, more well lit) selfies.

While the new camera features are pretty straightforward and about the same as what you would find in many messaging apps, it's an interesting move for WhatsApp, which rarely adds significant new features to its app. It's also the latest case of Facebook, or a Facebook-owned service, copying a feature first pioneered by Snapchat.

Earlier, Instagram implemented a feature called Stories -- a copy of Snapchat's feature of the same name -- and Facebook added new Snapchat-like camera features in its News Feed.

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