For many years now, WhatsApp for Android has four tabs on its interface: camera, chats, statuses and calls. The first, the one with the camera, is the smallest and apparently it won’t be with us for long. WhatsApp communities will take its place.
As revealed by WaBetaInfo, WhatsApp communities are going to have a privileged place in your application, becoming the first app tab on Android. This is consistent with leaks from WhatsApp for iOS, where the Communities tab is all over the center.
Goodbye camera icon
The WhatsApp camera tab has been with us for many years, although it is in a misunderstood way. Everything done with this tab can be done in other more intuitive ways. Personally, I don’t remember ever using it on purpose.
The tab displays the WhatsApp camera feature, so you can take a photo and then share it in a status or to one of your contacts. You can create a status with a photo in the same way from the Status tab, and you can also send photos to anyone from a chat. Moreover, WhatsApp has had a widget that directly opens the camera since 2014. Apparently, its days are numbered.
Instead, the place of honor as the first WhatsApp tab will go to the communities, this new WhatsApp function which has been in development for a few months now and which is establishing itself as the ideal place to bring together groups with something in common. We still didn’t know where WhatsApp was going to integrate its communities and it seems that we finally have the answer: where was the WhatsApp camera before.
WhatsApp has big plans for their communities, just like at one time he had them for his camera, when he even created his own widget to open it. We’ll see if WhatsApp communities earn that special place in the app when we can test them. And, judging by the amount of news about it we’ve learned, it shouldn’t take long.
Through | WaBetaInfo
