WhatsApp’s Liquid Glass redesign is spreading again, this time into the drawing editor and video player. A new iOS beta shows Meta testing the translucent, floating look on the tool you use to annotate photos and videos before sending, plus the progress bar on video playback. Both are still in testing, not live for everyone, so don’t expect to see this in your app just yet.
This is really just the next step in something WhatsApp’s been chipping away at since late 2025. It started with small, bottom navigation and parts of the Chats screen, then expanded into a broader rollout back in May 2026 covering the chat interface itself, complete with a floating translucent chat bar. June brought iPad testing and a wider chat-interface rollout, July added slightly more rounded message bubbles for select TestFlight users, and now August’s bringing the drawing editor and video progress bar into the mix.
What’s notable is how methodical this has been. Meta isn’t just skinning WhatsApp to look like iOS, it’s working through the app piece by piece, voice-message player, reaction tray, context menus, chat bubbles, each getting its own testing phase before wider release. That’s a slower approach than a single big redesign drop, but it means each component actually gets refined rather than shipped all at once and patched later.
The Mac and iPad versions are getting matching treatment too, with WhatsApp for Mac reportedly picking up a new sidebar, refreshed attachment menu, and a dedicated locked-chats section built around the same visual language. That points to Meta actually trying to unify the WhatsApp experience across every Apple platform rather than treating iPhone as the only priority.
If you’re not seeing any of this yet, that’s expected, most of it’s still limited to beta and TestFlight testers. But given how consistently WhatsApp’s been pushing this redesign forward month after month, the drawing editor an
M Adnan Akram is the founder and lead writer at Phoonomo, covering mobile technology with a primary focus on Apple and the broader smartphone industry, alongside emerging developments in AI. He follows product launches, spec leaks, and industry trends closely to keep readers informed with timely updates.
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