WhatsApp launches a new design for the floating player in its beta version

The creation of the WhatsApp beta program meant a before and after in terms of functionality within the app. Many people can take advantage of these features months before their official launch, or even try out tools that will never see the light of day. The latest big news released in the WhatsApp beta is a new design for your floating player which allows you to play without leaving the application (PiP, picture in picture

) YouTube or Instagram content, among others. This new design contains a series of shortcut changes that allow more functionality to the tool.

Floating WhatsApp reader gets a new design

WhatsApp beta news is comprehensively analyzed by WABetaInfo, a media dedicated solely and exclusively to this task. For a few weeks now, the beta version for Android already had a new floating player design and that was in version 2.21.220.15 for iOS when they decided to make the jump to Apple devices as well.

This new player continues to allow play videos and audiovisual content from platforms such as Instagram or Youtube

floating without leaving the application. That is, we can continue to write messages and browse the app without having to change the app to see the video they sent us. This player has been with us for a long time. However, the new design incorporates three new shortcuts: exit video, enter full screen and pause.

Although some WhatsApp beta users have already received this new design in previous versions, the vast majority of iOS beta testers have received it in this version which was released in a matter of hours. WhatsApp has also decided to try another change that many haven’t quite convinced: when we click on a YouTube link, we will go to the video directly in full screen, instead of in a floating player. We will finally see when this new design will be integrated and what the end result will be.