Did you observe Hysteresis phenomenon in WhatsApp ??

Hysteresis behavior implies changing of output depending on the direction of input.

We observe this phenomenon across many subjects. The below image shows the Hysteresis observed with respect to the Magnetic field.

Magnetic Hysteresis

Now, coming to the topic, if you open WhatsApp, we can observe similar behavior when we swipe through "CHATS" to "STATUS" and back.

When we swipe from CHATS to STATUS section, the chat icon will not disappear immediately when status comes and will disappear only when the chats section completely disappears ( it means the icon will be there even if we have a small part of the chats section on screen), and then we have the camera icon.

We can observe the same thing with the camera icon in the status menu when we move back to chats from status. The camera icon will be there till the status section disappear completely. But it means the icon will be there even when we enter chats, which is against the previous observation that the chat icon will be there even if we have a small part of the chats section on the screen.

It means that the icons are behaving differently depending on the direction we swipe, which comes under Hysteresis behavior...

So it's time to check on your mobile !!

Attaching a video, in order to add some more meaning to the words above...

Thank you for reading, and feel free to share your views and also if you already observed this or similar things, and help us to get, 'The Eternal Thing'...

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