Twitter Blue has lastly began letting subscribers on Android customise the app’s navigation bar. The characteristic, which was beforehand obtainable solely on iOS, allows you to do away with the Areas icon that’s smack-dab in the midst of your navigation bar (and naturally, take away a number of the different tabs in order for you, too).
With customized navigation, you possibly can cut back the variety of displayed tabs to as few as two, or maintain all 5 that seem by default — useful should you’re uninterested in stretching your finger over the Areas tab simply to get to your DMs and notifications. Twitter first began testing the Areas tab on iOS final yr and rolled out the tab on Android in Might, which appeared to solely give extra inconvenienced customers a motive to join the $2.99 / month Blue subscription launched final yr.
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However Blue can’t save us from each characteristic that’s cluttering up the app. Twitter introduced final week that it’s going to start out together with extra info within the banner that reveals energetic Areas on the very prime of your timeline. Whereas there nonetheless isn’t a setting to show this banner off completely (neither without spending a dime or Blue subscribers), it is going to now present who’s internet hosting the House, who shares a tweet within the House, in addition to related Subjects.
