WhatsApp is rolling out a fairly substantial design replace for each its iOS and Android apps, however we wager the corporate hoped for a barely hotter welcome of the brand new design on X.
The brand new structure, which has similarities on iOS and Android, is not a radical departure. The search is extra outstanding on high of the app, under it, tabs allow you to shortly entry unread messages and teams, and on the underside, a row of icons helps you to entry Chats, Updates, Communities and different options (to be honest, this can be a greater change on Android, which did not have the underside row of icons till now).
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However WhatsApp customers on iOS have observed a giant visible change: The predominant shade accent on every part is now inexperienced as an alternative of blue (on Android, the app was already predominantly inexperienced).
It is smart to have the identical visible id throughout the identical app on two cellular platforms, however because it so usually occurs, the change irked some commenters on X, which balked on the freshly inexperienced WhatsApp expertise.
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“I significantly freaked out when that inexperienced got here into my face. We want the blue again,” wrote one commenter. “I nonetheless have the blue and I hope it stays like this without end,” wrote one other.
“BRING THE BLUE BACK,” one particular person on X cried in horror.
I did not get the brand new design but, my WhatsApp iOS app remains to be blue, and it is onerous to say simply how traumatic this greenification of WhatsApp can be for me. I do just like the blue, too, although.
Notably, a lot of commenters under WhatsApp’s announcement on X famous that the corporate retains updating its iPhone app very steadily, however nonetheless hasn’t bought an iPad app. What’s up with that, WhatsApp?