WhatsApp has begun rolling out a change to the app’s interface on Android, that may make it a lot simpler to make use of the favored chat utility with one hand. The corporate first launched a bottom-tabbed design to beta testers of its Android app earlier this yr — 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 just 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 through the Google Play retailer, the brand new bottom-tabbed interface has rolled out to a number of Devices 360 employees members on Monday, whereas many others can nonetheless see the unique navigation bar on the prime that permits you to change between the Chats, Calls, and Standing tabs, together with a smaller tab with the Communities icon on the left. WhatsApp first launched the relocated tab to beta testers again in Could.
WhatsApp’s new bottom-tabbed interface seems to be slowly rolling out to all customers
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The underside tab interface on WhatsApp options 4 tabs — Chats, Updates, Communities, and Calls. These tabs additionally embrace icons — these had been beforehand unavailable when the tabs had been situated on the prime of the display screen. Probably the most notable enchancment of the brand new navigation system is that customers can now simply change to totally different tabs whereas utilizing the cellphone with one hand.
Nevertheless, the most recent 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 slip their finger throughout the chat checklist in direction of the tab they needed to change to. With the bottom-tab interface, it seems that customers should faucet to change tabs as a substitute of swiping.
Final week, WhatsApp began rolling out different delicate modifications to the interface for customers on the beta channel. Devices 360 was capable of verify that the enduring 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 a number of the color accents on the latest beta launch for Android, making the inexperienced colors barely brighter and extra vivid, particularly when darkish mode is turned on. The app’s ‘stable’ icons had been just lately changed with ‘define’ icons for voice and video calls inside particular person chats, in addition to the digital camera icon on the primary chat checklist.
