If you are using WhatsApp Beta on your Android mobile, you might be a little scared when you see that its interface has changed radically. Introducing a major redesign of the app that changes navigation from using top tabs to a bottom button pad. Activating publicly in WhatsApp Beta.

For those who have already used or used WhatsApp on an iPhone, this will be like coming home because a design similar to what they have on iOS. As if that wasn’t enough, changing the app’s navigation will also change the contextual menu that appears when selecting messages, again comparable to that of iOS.

WhatsApp for Android loses its identity

Android and iOS are not the same and therefore many apps available for both operating systems are not the same on an Android mobile and an iPhone. On WhatsApp this has been pretty obvious so far because Android has tabs at the topnavigation on an iPhone is at the bottom.

After many years of staying the same, except for the occasional switch from one tab to the next, now WhatsApp for Android, bring navigation to bottom, as in the iPhone. It comes here with four buttons: Chats, Communities, Statuses and Calls. There is no button for settings like in iOS. The novelty has been in testing for a while and is currently being enabled quite widely among beta users.

In contrast, WhatsApp’s header has been lightened and continues to maintain the image. camera, finder and context menu buttonhowever, we cannot switch between different parts of the application by swiping sideways as before.

The bottom navigation of WhatsApp for Android is already enabled, but there is another innovation that syncs the Android version to the iOS version on the way: context menu when selecting a message. We learned from WaBetaInfo that it will also be redesigned.

So far, WhatsApp for Android uses the standard Android selection system, integrating contextual buttons as menu items at the top, but there will be one coming soon. floating context menuSimilar to iOS.

While WhatsApp for Android will lose some of its identity with these changes, the truth is that the contextual menu that appears when selecting a message was growing too much in terms of number of staff makes it more and more necessary to expand the entire list. With this new menu, which we do not know when it will come yet, everything will be much more visible after selecting a message.

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