Following the recent discovery that WhatsApp was working on new chat themes, the feature is now rolling out to iPhone users. Here are the details.
WhatsApp’s new chat themes include animated backgrounds
As reported by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is now rolling out five new categories for chat themes: Featured, Nature, Live, Minimal, and Doodle. Just two weeks ago, the site had spotted references to the new theme galleries in code.
The site notes that while Featured includes “a selection of the best themes available,” curated by WhatsApp’s design team, the Nature category “offers themes that bring outdoor landscapes to the chat screen.” Live, meanwhile,“features wallpapers that move slowly in the background,” while Minimal themes “apply a plain background to the chat screen: white in light mode and dark in dark mode.” Finally, Doodle includes WhatsApp’s classic wallpaper with the doodle patterns.
Here’s WABetaInfo on the Live wallpapers, which are arguably the most notable addition:
