Whatsappone of the most important applications of Metadecided to change one of its fundamental characteristics for the streamlining conversations. This is the indicator “writing”which is present in the top of the chat when someone is composing a message.
The replacement for this function will be a bubble at the bottomaiming to modernize the design. It will be accompanied by the contact’s profile image and a three-point animation.
As reported from the application, its main objective is to provide a smoother interfaceand that also adapts to current screens. It’s just that these have considerably increased in size in recent times.
From the company they assured that this change originates from power streamline information in group chats. The thing is that when several participants write at the same time in these groups, their profile icons will now appear within the chat.
Thus, the bubble will give users an accurate indication of everyone who is active in the group. This did not exist before, since WhatsApp only showed the name of a person who wrote, without indications to know if others were writing simultaneously.
Another thing that will be changed is the “recording audio” indicatorwhich will be replaced by the microphone iconfollowing the same style. However, both updates will be for all types of chats, both individual and group, where you can see multiple bubbles if multiple users are typing at the same time.
The history of WhatsApp
WhatsApp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in the year 2009. Both were former employees of Yahoo. Initially, the application was conceived as a tool just to show a status next to user names in a contact list.
However, in 2010, They decided to add the instant messaging optiona fact that changed WhatsApp forever. The application began to gain a lot of popularity quickly.
Its simplicity, lack of ads, and focus on privacy helped establish it as one of the most used messaging applications in the world.
In 2014, it was acquired by Facebookwhich later became Meta, for approximately $19 billion. Mark Zuckerberg he wanted to have her no matter what among his ranks.
Since then, it has had many updates that have modernized it and made it even more useful. Today, it has approximately 2.95 billion monthly active users globally.
