WhatsApp Beta Shows Changes to Liquid Glass for Message Reactions, More

WhatsApp continues its Liquid Glass overhaul on iOS, with the latest version of TestFlight revealing work on message reactions and updated context menus. Here are the details.

Liquid Glass redesign continues in beta ahead of wider rollout

Last year, following the release of iOS 26, Meta rolled out a small-scale test of the Liquid Glass look applied to the official app’s bottom navigation bar and some elements of its Chats tab interface.

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As of today, this rollout still appears to be extremely limited, with most users still seeing the pre-Liquid Glass interface.

However, on TestFlight builds, Meta continued to experiment with more Liquid Glass refinements.

In recent weeks, TestFlight’s WhatsApp release revealed that Meta was working to integrate Liquid Glass into the chat interface, following an earlier beta that showed a similar overhaul for the app’s voicemail reader.

NOW, WABetaInfo reports that Meta is preparing the same treatment for two other parts of the chat experience: message reactions and context menus.

As for other new WhatsApp features spotted by WABetaInfothe updated interface is not yet available to beta testers. However, the site was able to activate it before release, as shown in the screenshot below:

Here is WABetaInfo on what they found:

Currently, the reaction plate has a more solid and opaque appearance. Although the context menu has already been refreshed with the Liquid Glass design in the chat list, the messages context menu uses a simpler background style with limited transparency effects. As a result, these elements still appear visually inconsistent with other parts of the app that have already adopted the new design language.

As with other new features spotted in TestFlight versions of WhatsApp, it is still unclear when these changes will be applied to the App Store version.

Still, the fact that new references to Liquid Glass continue to appear in beta builds clearly shows that Meta is actively working on the redesign and suggests that an official rollout may not be too far away.