WhatsApp has steadily introduced new facets to its platform over the last few years. In recent times, the tempo of addition has only increased, with the messaging carrier gaining beneficial new additions almost every different day on the beta channel, like making uncompressed media sharing easier, AI-generated stickers, and more. Meta these days also tweaked the app’s sketch on the beta channel by means of relocating the navigation bar to the backside and updating some UI elements. As it turns out, WhatsApp is working on an even higher layout revamp of its Android app.
Rolling out as a phase of the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.13.16 to select beta testers (via WABetaInfo), the new UI features updated Material Design 3 UI elements. The app’s pinnacle bar is now absolutely white, with different UI factors in green — the equal color WhatsApp uses in its logo. The beta launch makes use of a new font for WhatsApp’s branding at the top.
These modifications combined supply WhatsApp with a greater contemporary seem and feel. While the navigation bar is still at the backside in the new design, it is doubtful if you can swipe to change between tabs.
To control your ever-growing list of conversations, the revamped WhatsApp app will have chat filters at the pinnacle to effortlessly let you see your unread, personal, or enterprise messages. They had popped up in one of WhatsApp’s previous beta builds as well, although this time, they sport an up-to-date look. These filters will grow to be even more useful when WhatsApp rolls out multi-account support.
WhatsApp’s revamped diagram is nonetheless beneath development, so there are bound to be greater changes in store. As the format nears its remaining stages, WhatsApp ought to roll it out widely to beta testers before a public release.
