WhatsApp has begun rolling out a change to the app’s interface on Android, that may make it a lot simpler to use the favored chat utility with one hand. The firm first launched a bottom-tabbed design to beta testers of its Android app earlier this 12 months — the iOS model of the app already has tabs on the backside — and the modified interface is now rolling out to customers on the secure replace channel. WhatsApp additionally lately began testing a redesigned interface for iOS and Android with new colors and accents on the beta model of the app.
After updating to WhatsApp for Android 2.23.20.76 by way of the Google Play retailer, the brand new bottom-tabbed interface has rolled out to a number of Gadgets 360 workers members on Monday, whereas many others can nonetheless see the unique navigation bar on the prime that permits you to swap between the Chats, Calls, and Status tabs, together with a smaller tab with the Communities icon on the left. WhatsApp first launched the relocated tab to beta testers again in May.
WhatsApp’s new bottom-tabbed interface seems to be slowly rolling out to all customers
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The backside tab interface on WhatsApp options 4 tabs — Chats, Updates, Communities, and Calls. These tabs additionally embrace icons — these have been beforehand unavailable when the tabs have been positioned on the prime of the display screen. The most notable enchancment of the brand new navigation system is that customers can now simply swap to totally different tabs whereas utilizing the telephone with one hand.
However, the newest replace that provides the underside tab interface additionally prevents customers from swiping throughout tabs — the older design that featured the tabs on the prime of the interface allowed customers to slide their finger throughout the chat checklist in the direction of the tab they needed to swap to. With the bottom-tab interface, it seems that customers may have to faucet to swap tabs as an alternative of swiping.
Last week, WhatsApp began rolling out different delicate modifications to the interface for customers on the beta channel. Gadgets 360 was in a position to affirm that the long-lasting inexperienced bar on the prime of the app on Android has been eliminated, in favour of an all-white interface, in gentle mode, which in flip permits the entire app to seem darkish gray when darkish mode is enabled.
WhatsApp has additionally tweaked among the color accents on the current beta launch for Android, making the inexperienced colors barely brighter and extra vivid, particularly when darkish mode is turned on. The app’s ‘strong’ icons have been lately changed with ‘define’ icons for voice and video calls inside particular person chats, in addition to the digicam icon on the primary chat checklist.
