New navigation bar in WhatsApp The feature was available in beta for some time. Now, it's finally coming to the stable WhatsApp channel, as announced by WhatsApp on X.

This setup often felt disconnected from the page being viewed. Now, with Chrome 129, the Android gesture navigation bar dynamically adjusts to the color of the page’s active tab.

In theory, this shouldn’t leave Android Auto completely useless. Even without the navigation bar, users can still access Maps and music controls. The main problem comes in being able to actually ...

The navigation bar on the Android Auto app is necessary for switching between various apps. Without this bar, users were stuck on a particular screen and not able to make use of other apps that ...

This would force apps to use edge-to-edge, rendering the status and navigation bars as transparent, if they target Android 15 (API 35). By Google’s usual schedule, that requirement would kick in ...