WhatsApp’s getting a brand new look, with Meta’s prime messaging app rolling out a UI replace, which incorporates important modifications to its Android app, in addition to a cleaner structure, extra outstanding decrease perform bar choices, up to date graphic components and extra.

Right here’s a side-by-side comparability of the present and new Android app to focus on the variations.

As you may see, the separate coloured header bar on the prime of the app is now gone, whereas the search icon has been changed with a bigger immediate for Meta’s new AI chatbot. Which I personally don’t assume provides, or will add important worth for many customers. But it surely’s there, and Meta’s actually eager to get extra folks utilizing it. In order that’s one other ingredient.

The opposite main shift is that the varied tabs have been moved to the underside, with all-new icons.

Meta’s additionally including a “darker darkish mode” setting for mild delicate customers, whereas on iOS, WhatsApp’s received a brand new attachment structure to make it simpler to share extra sorts of content material.

These usually are not useful modifications, as such, solely visible reformats, although as WhatsApp notes, there are additionally new transitions and animations to finish the refresh.

The reformat really makes the structure look much more like Messenger, with each apps now principally having the identical UI.

Which is probably going by design. Meta’s been working to combine its messaging apps right into a single platform, and with that in thoughts, this replace will assist to convey them nearer collectively, and make it simpler for customers of every app to change from platform-to-platform.

General, nevertheless, it’s not a significant departure, only a refresh to make WhatsApp extra aligned with its different platforms.

Mainly, the important thing notice right here is that while you open WhatsApp and it seems to be bit bizarre, don’t fear, you’ll get used to it fairly fast.