WhatsApp's New Update Will Improve Chat Privacy and Status Updates

Apart from updates regarding privacy and status, WhatsApp is now changing the appearance of the application on Android devices.

Quoting information from GSM Arena, this WhatsApp design change was made to the position of the tabs displayed in the application. If previously the menu tab was placed at the top, now its position has been moved to the bottom.

“Meet your new navigation tool, closer to your thumb and comfortable to look at,” wrote WhatsApp via the official social media account of Meta's chat application.

Apart from being moved to the bottom, the menu tab arrangement in the WhatsApp application on Android has also changed. Now, users will find the Chats, Updates, Communities, and Calls tabs.

For your information, the Updates tab replaces the previous Status tab. Apart from that, WhatsApp has also added icons to each tab, different from previously which were only available on the Communities tab.

Other changes have also been made to the background color across tabs. If previously it was green, now the background of all tabs is white, so it looks the same as the chat column.