Android customers, have you ever received the new-look WhatsApp?

Consider it or not, WhatsApp will quickly be 15 years previous. On this complete time, it’s appeared remarkably related.

Regardless that the app has developed significantly since its takeover by Meta (beforehand recognized Fb), its look has remained very a lot the identical. However now, an attention grabbing replace will start rolling out to all Android customers.

WhatsApp introduces a brand new navigation bar

The navigation bar within the Android model of WhatsApp has at all times been positioned on the high of the display screen, immediately beneath the search operate.

However that’s now altering, with the important thing navigation buttons transferring all the way down to the underside of the display screen within the new replace. iPhone customers will discover the look acquainted: on iOS, the navigation bar has at all times been right here.

Within the slideshow beneath, you possibly can see a comparability of earlier than and after the change:

The brand new navigation bar not solely appears totally different, it has an affect on navigation. Because the replace, customers can now not change home windows by swiping, as was beforehand attainable.

My WhatsApp nonetheless appears the identical – what can I do?

This replace doesn’t come as an enormous shock – WhatsApp already examined the brand new navigation bar in April, as a part of the beta programme.

At the moment, the replace is being rolled out to all customers, however not on the similar time. Updates for apps with such a big person base are sometimes distributed in levels. So, in case your WhatsApp nonetheless appears the identical because it at all times has, verify repeatedly for an replace on the Google Play Retailer.