Kakao will restore the first screen of the KakaoTalk Friends tab to the friends list as early as next week.
According to the information and communications technology (ICT) industry on the 10th, Kakao plans to push an update as early as next week that will bring back the Friends list from the feed-style layout introduced after the revamp. After launching a sweeping revamp of KakaoTalk on Sept. 23, Kakao announced that, amid growing user complaints, it would restore the first screen of the Friends tab to the friends list within the year.
The update will be rolled out in stages, so the actual date users can update may differ by as much as about a week. The core of this update is to let users choose between a list-style and feed-style layout for the Friends tab.
A Kakao official said, "There is no change in our plan to implement updates related to the KakaoTalk revamp within this month," and noted, "It is difficult at this time to specify the exact timing."