WhatsApp has made a subtle but ‘annoying’ change to its popular chat app and fans aren’t happy.
Regular users of WhatsApp may have suddenly noticed a subtle but ‘annoying’ change when chatting to friends and family. The hugely popular app, which boasts some 3 billion users worldwide, appears to be rolling out an update which has killed off the popular ‘ Typing ‘ feature and replaced it with three dots that now bounce around when someone is replying to a text.
Until now, when a message is being bashed into a keyboard the recipient would see the word ‘ Typing ‘ appear at the top of the chat but that’s no longer the case with those three dots now showing alongside the last message sent.
It might seem like a pretty insignificant update but fans of the messaging service clearly aren’t happy with many rushing to platforms such as X (formerly Twitter ) to vent their frustrations.
“Hello @ WhatsApp can we just go back to so and so is typing? This dot dot dot bouncing up and down is getting to be annoying,” asked Farah in a post on X.
Another user called Miss How exclaimed, “WhatsApp now has the three dots typing thing like iMessage and I Hateeeee it!”
User Richy added, “The new Whatsapp typing animation seems purposely designed to give me anxiety.”
And WhatsApp fan Snehal vented, “What the hell WhatsApp, what are these ellipsis? Bring back the good old ‘typing’.”
It’s unclear why WhatsApp has ditched the ‘typing’ message at the top of the app but the three dots bouncing isn’t a new concept. Apple’s iMessage has been using those symbols for a number of years when sending chats to other iPhone users.
With such a massive backlash against the update, it will be interesting to see if WhatsApp rolls back on the update and reverts back to the ‘typing’ message.
For now, it seems more and more people are seeing the change and most definitely aren’t happy about it.
Have you spotted the three dots? Let us know your reaction in the comments below.
