WhatsApp has lastly begun testing a revamped interface on Android, months after the corporate was noticed engaged on a redesigned model of the favored chat software. The brand new interface ditches WhatsApp’s iconic green-coloured high bar in favour of a white high bar, in the primary chat checklist and inside particular person chats. The brand new design can also be aligned with Google’s Materials Design 3 tips and improves the looks of darkish theme. WhatsApp has additionally added new ‘define’ icons for numerous buttons within the app, as a part of the most recent beta replace.
A Devices 360 workers member’s app acquired the redesigned interface on the most recent beta model — WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.21.12. After putting in the most recent beta, testers ought to start to see a redesigned interface that features a white bar on the high, with the WhatsApp textual content in inexperienced (the steady model of the app at the moment shows the app’s title in white on a darkish inexperienced background). When the darkish theme is enabled, the highest bar now turns black and the textual content is displayed in white.
WhatsApp has additionally tweaked the color of the inexperienced accent used within the app, on each the sunshine and darkish themes within the app. Consequently, the color of the floating motion button and different elements of the interface with the inexperienced accent — such because the floating motion button (FAB) — seem a bit of brighter, particularly when the darkish mode is turned on.
Along with the brand new color tweaks on the Android app, WhatsApp has additionally changed the stable icons for voice and video calls inside particular person chats, in addition to the digicam icon on the primary chat checklist, with outlines of the prevailing icons. These icons had been beforehand noticed final month by a characteristic tracker on model 2.23.20.10 of WhatsApp beta for Android.
WhatsApp can also be engaged on updating the color palette for its iOS app, together with the brand new define icons — the brand new design parts had been not too long ago noticed on WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.19.1.72. In contrast to its Android counterpart, nonetheless, WhatsApp for iOS doesn’t comprise a green-coloured high bar on the steady model of the app.
Whereas the brand new interface doesn’t seem to have made its strategy to iOS beta testers, each cellular platforms are additionally anticipated to achieve assist for brand new chat filters equivalent to All, Unread, Contacts, and Teams, that would make managing a number of chats quite a bit simpler. These filters, together with the redesigned interface, are anticipated to roll out to customers on the steady channel within the coming months.
