WhatsApp continues change for the better. The platform recently introduced themes, which allow you to change the appearance of the entire application and our chats. But not all the changes that WhatsApp will make will be aesthetic, the platform also wants to make our lives easier when sending files and photos.
The latest WhatsApp beta discovery reveals a small but important change. The company plans separate the buttons with which we access the file sending function. This way we can send the photo we want to share more quickly, requiring fewer presses on the screen.
One button for everything in WhatsApp: this is how the bar changes for entering text in chats
This change in WhatsApp’s interface promises that sending photos and files through the app will not only be faster, but the application will have a better organization of icons. The change will be in the text entry bar, that is, that bar in which we write all our messages before sending them.
So far, the WhatsApp text bar for Android consists of the following buttons: the button to send emojis, the clip-shaped button to send files and access more functions, the button to access the camera and the button-shaped microphone for sending voice. messages.
Many of these buttons serve multiple purposes. The emoji button also allows us to access the stickers and the GIF tool, and the clip-shaped button opens the doors to all the sharing options (location, contacts, files and more). However, to send a specific photo, we must press the clip-shaped button and then select “Gallery”. The next change that WhatsApp is preparing is one as simple as it is effective: have independent buttons to access the camera and the gallery
Image: WaBetaInfo.
In this way we can access the camera by simply pressing a button, or the image gallery in the same way, by pressing a button. The idea would be that changing the interface would cost a lot more convenient and faster to send photos in chatsAfter all, it is one of the most used features on the platform daily by millions of users.
Those responsible for the discovery, WaBetaInfo, mention that the design of this renewed interface could change, but the idea will remain: offering access to the functions most used by people directly in the text bar, without requiring multiple presses or having to access an additional button. menu before you can send that selfie. This change is available in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android version 2.24.24.16, and at the moment it is not known when it will reach all users.
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