No more green speech bubbles: Customised chats arrive on Whatsapp


Anyone looking for a bit more pop in their WhatsApp can now change both the colour of the speech bubbles as well as the background image. There's a benefit to having different themes in different chats. — Photo: Franziska Gabbert/dpa

BERLIN: After years of forcing all users to message in the same old green speech bubbles, WhatsApp is now opening up its interface to new chat themes that can be customised.

WhatsApp already allowed users to set an individual background photo for chats, but only now can you also set the colour of speech bubbles that display the chat messages.

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