The Christmas you live on preparations, purchases and even on your cell phone. One way to give a Christmas tone to your smartphone is – through a very simple trick – to position a feature Santa’s hat to the icon Whatsapp on devices with Android operating system.
TO change the logothose who want to give a Christmas look to their messenger should download new launcherwhich is available exclusively in the Google Play Store, since it allows you to change the icons that applications bring by default.
By installing the app and accepting the terms and conditions, Nova Launcher will ask you to set some items as your favorite theme. There you can choose the color of the phone’s theme (light, dark or automatic) and the arrangement of the icons on the screen.
How to add a Santa Claus hat to the WhatsApp icon
The key will be inside afterward look for an image of the WhatsApp logo with the Christmas hatespecially one in .png formatsince it has no background, and save it in your mobile gallery.
By selecting the messenger icon and keeping it pressed, Nova Launcher will allow you to modify it to replace its characteristic image with the Christmas one you downloaded from “Applications” and subsequently, “Record”.
Finally, all that remains is to adjust the size and save. There you can show off the new WhatsApp icon with a Christmas hat.
It should be noted that Nova Launcher is an application outside the Facebook universe and is not available for Apple iPhone mobile phones.
WhatsApp: padlocked messages also arrive
After photos disappearing after viewing, WhatsApp is now working on applying this same temporality to the text messageso they can only be read once.
The new temporary or ephemeral message type may already be seen in the beta for Android (version 2.22.25.20), where it is accompanied by a new submit button with padlock.
This new button present in the message composer is that it indicates to the user that he can send an single-read textand which will disappear from the conversation when the recipient has opened and read it.
If the recipient tries to view it again, a small symbol with the number 1 and a warning that will appear instead expired textbut you can ask the broadcaster to send it again, as explained by the specialized site WABetainfo.
This type of temporary message is preceded by an information page, which declares it given the private nature with which it was designed it is not possible to take a screenshot, copy it, share it with other users or save it.
It is currently a feature in development that should arrive in a future update of WhatsApp for Android, first for users of the beta version.
Meanwhile, as the end of the year approaches, the phone lists that it will stop being compatible with WhatsApp in 2023. Check if yours is on this list.
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Source: Clarin
Linda Price is a tech expert at News Rebeat. With a deep understanding of the latest developments in the world of technology and a passion for innovation, Linda provides insightful and informative coverage of the cutting-edge advancements shaping our world.