{"id":40483,"date":"2013-05-01T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40483"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:28:35","slug":"twitter-for-android-brings-back-the-menu-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-for-android-brings-back-the-menu-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter for Android brings back the menu button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"twitter for android brings back menu button\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/twitter-for-android-brings-back-the-menu-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40398\" title=\"Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/GLASSTWITTA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><a title=\"twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> must have <a title=\"Hands-on with new Twitter for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-new-twitter-for-android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heard the cries<\/a> of our editor, <a title=\"chris park softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/reviewer\/christopher-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Park<\/a>, who hated the last update to the company&#8217;s Android app. The redesigned Android app looked great but got rid of the menu button, which offered quick access to account switching. Well today Twitter brought back the menu button. Rejoice!<\/p>\n<p>While the menu button is back, it has moved. It&#8217;s now located to the upper right of the app, next to the search and compose buttons. Previously, users had to navigate to their profiles to find the account switch button but now users can switch accounts from anywhere within the app since the buttons at the top are persistent.<\/p>\n<p>The menu button also reveals the option to change settings for the app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40489\" title=\"twitter combined\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/twitter-combined-1024x853.jpg\" alt=\"twitter combined\" width=\"600\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/twitter-combined-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/twitter-combined-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/twitter-combined.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you already have the app installed, open <a title=\"google play\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play<\/a> to update or you can download it right here on Softonic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"twitter for android download\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter for Android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter must have heard the cries of our editor, Chris Park, who hated the last update to the company&#8217;s Android app. The redesigned Android app looked great but got rid of the menu button, which offered quick access to account switching. Well today Twitter brought back the menu button. Rejoice! While the menu button is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-for-android-brings-back-the-menu-button\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter for Android brings back the menu button&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":40489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-40483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333001,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483\/revisions\/333001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}