They find it un-App-ealing.
WhatsApp users are ripping the popular messaging platform over an irritating new animation that they claim is giving them “vertigo.”
Previously, all sent correspondence would simply pop up on screen. However, the Meta-owned app, which boasts billions of users worldwide, quietly revamped the feature so that now messages swoop in from the right with a swish animation.
While this tweak might seem fairly innocuous, the message makeover didn’t sit well with WhatsApp devotees, who deemed it dizzying and obnoxious.
“WhatsApp’s new message delivery animation on iOS makes me wanna puke,” decried one disgruntled user on X.
Another wrote, “WhatsApp’s new message animation on iOS is driving me insane.”
“This animation is so bad I restarted my phone because I thought there was something wrong with it,” griped a third.
One wit quipped, “Zuckerberg really tried to give us all vertigo. Thank you for this.”
“WhatsApp’s new animation when sending a message has me completely unhinged,” lamented one critic. “There has to be some way to get rid of that.”
Thankfully, as many users pointed out, there is indeed a way to restore the original messaging effects.
To revert back, users simply open WhatsApp, go to “settlings,” select “appearance,” and then toggle messages off.
This isn’t the first Meta feature users have thumbed their noses at of late.
The tech firm recently yanked its new Instagram AI image feature – which automatically opted in photos from all public accounts – just days after its debut due to criticism over privacy concerns.
“Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way,” Meta said in a statement. “We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it’s no longer available.”
