Latest WhatsApp Beta Brings Minor Changes, But Still no Sign of Dark Mode

WhatsApp has only released a new beta version of its pop instant messaging app through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing a couple of minor UI changes, including a slightly redesigned 'System Result' layout that shows of import announcements about encryption, etc. The update, which bumps up the version number to 2.twenty.8, now shows yellow text inside the aforementioned system event bubbles, as seen in the screenshot below.

Do note that the feature is to be officially available in the latest version, only will exist turned on through a future update, according to WABetaInfo. Apart from that, there'due south no existent change to write home most, which unfortunately means that the much-awaited Dark Mode continues to remain MIA even every bit the Facebook-owned company has been slowly but surely incorporating various 'Dark Mode' elements into the app over the past several months.

WhatsApp has reportedly been working on a Night Way for what seems to be an eternity, but while the characteristic itself however remains elusive, the company belatedly terminal year introduced a dark-themed preview widget on Android as a prelude to the real thing. Nevertheless, as seen from the screenshot below, it is more of a 'night blue' color rather than the full AMOLED nighttime mode that nearly users would accept ideally wanted.

In instance you don't know it already, WhatsApp has long been rumored to curl out a Dark Way to its popular messaging app, although at that place's no word on when that might happen. While some of the contempo changes suggest that the eventual rollout may not exist that far away, at that place's however no official ETA, so it volition exist interesting to meet when the visitor will get around to bringing the one feature that all WhatsApp users seem to exist clamoring for over the past several years.