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 among the different tabs if you would like, too).
With customized navigation, you may cut back the variety of displayed tabs to as few as two, or maintain all 5 that seem by default — useful should you’re bored with 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 12 months and rolled out the tab on Android in Could, which appeared to solely give extra inconvenienced customers a motive to enroll in the $2.99 / month Blue subscription launched final 12 months.
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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 lively Areas on the very high of your timeline. Whereas there nonetheless isn’t a setting to show this banner off fully (neither without spending a dime or Blue subscribers), it’s going to now present who’s internet hosting the Area, who shares a tweet within the Area, in addition to related Subjects.
