Facebook-owned messaging platform continues innovation process. New emoji and dark mode coming
WhatsApp changes. Update after update, the developers of the world’s most widely used messaging platform continue to add new features or modify the app’s user interface, in order to further facilitate its use.
In recent weeks, in particular, from the parts of Menlo Park now seem more and more concetrated on the night mode – or dark mode as you like – that should now be on the home stretch. Of dark mode on WhatsApp, in fact, if we talk about it for months, including announcements, inclusion in various beta versions and subsequent (and mysterious) withdrawals. Now, however, the arrival of night mode seems to be a matter of days, or weeks at most. However, according to the usual well-informed, the dark mode has been perfected and is now a done deal and all that remains is to wait for its official release.
WhatsApp Dark Mode, the latest news
To provide new information on the status of the development of night mode is the Twitter profile “WABetaInfo”, specializing in the study and analysis of beta versions of the messaging platform. In version 2.19.297, released through the channels of the Google Play Beta Program, have been refined some graphic details and changed some elements of the interface. In short, in this case, the dark mode has passed under the skilful hands of WhatsApp designers, who now seem to have defined the general appearance of the new mode and are only making the final touches.
In particular, the app’s home screen has been completely revised and redesigned and corrected some details of the “comic strip” with which WhatsApp warns of the encryption applied to the various conversations. The graphic designers have redesigned the padlock, so as to make it more in line with the colors of the dark mode.
WhatsApp, new emoji arrive
With the next official update, however, WhatsApp’s emoji gallery should be enriched with a new “batch” of custom smilies. Evidently, the Unicode 12 guidelines have been integrated into the messaging platform’s source code and, with them, the new 230 emoji that were officially introduced a few weeks ago.
Scrolling through Whatsapp’s emoj gallery, then, you can find new smilies dedicated to same-sex couples, people with disabilities, food and some WhatsApp-themed games.