{"id":327585,"date":"2019-11-14T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=327585"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:43:25","slug":"whatsapp-gets-new-facebook-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/327585-whatsapp-gets-new-facebook-branding.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp gets new Facebook branding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a minor beta update &#8211; version 2.19.331 &#8211; through the Google Play Beta Program, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-331-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WABetaInfo<\/a> <\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this update, WhatsApp has added Facebook&#8217;s new logo to a variety of pages within the app.<\/p>\n<p>Pages that display this new logo include WhatsApp Settings, the welcome screen, and the splash screen.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/326263-here-is-facebooks-new-logo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>updated<\/strong><\/a> its corporate logo to separate its corporate business from its social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new branding was designed for clarity, and uses custom typography and capitalization to create visual distinction between the company and app,\u201d Facebook said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brand change is a way to better communicate our ownership structure to the people and businesses who use our services to connect, share, build community and grow their audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">No dark mode<\/h3>\n<p>The latest beta update of WhatsApp does not yet include the upcoming dark theme, as WhatsApp is still working on polishing this feature.<\/p>\n<p>According to WABetaInfo, the dark theme is essentially &#8220;perfect&#8221;, but WhatsApp is making minor adjustments to icon colours.<\/p>\n<p>Previous <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/322472-whatsapp-dark-mode-is-coming-to-android.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> have indicated that once WhatsApp&#8217;s dark theme is implemented, it will be accessible through a new section in WhatsApp&#8217;s Settings menu entitled Theme Settings.<\/p>\n<p>Users will then have three choices &#8211; Light Theme, Dark Theme, and System Default.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/327551-facebook-removed-millions-of-user-posts.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook removed millions of user posts<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a minor new beta update through the Google Play Beta Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,2594,55422],"class_list":["post-327585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-beta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327615,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327585\/revisions\/327615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}