Venmo’s Biggest Makeover in 5 Years Arrives This Week—Why the App Took Inspiration From Gen-Z

Venmo’s Biggest Makeover in 5 Years Arrives This Week—Why the App Took Inspiration From Gen-Z

The redesign aims to improve the app’s navigation, usability, and social features.

Venmo's redesigned app offers more discreet payments by default

New users will automatically have post visibility set to friends only instead of public.

Venmo's New App Design Comes With a Great Privacy Update

For me, Venmo has always been the app to settle quick debts. Someone puts their card down at dinner, and I Venmo them my share; I covered costs on a trip, and the group Venmos me in return. But Venmo has always seemed like it wanted to be more than that. The app feels like a hybrid between a banking service, a social media platform, and a place to buy and sell crypto. None of that is changing with its new redesign; in fact, it feels like it's le…

Venmo privacy finally being fixed eight years after 'alarming' fails

Problems with Venmo privacy were first highlighted way back in 2018. A security researcher demonstrated how the API could be...

Venmo is getting its first big redesign, and it’s finally fixing this annoying feature

Venmo is getting its first full app overhaul since its inception in 2009, and it’s addressing some major UX issues that have made using the platform feel like the digital equivalent of flipping through a phone book. When Venmo was launched, it was a breath of fresh air in the finance space. It stood out for its social network-style approach to bill splitting and rent requests. Since then, though, Venmo’s aspirations have far outgrown its app int…

Venmo finally takes privacy seriously

Venmo is starting to test a big redesign of its app, and as part of the changes, it will be implementing a major new privacy measure: the onboarding process for new users will set their posts to only be viewable by their friends by default instead of being public. It's a notable update for a platform that has struggled with privacy in the past. In 2021, BuzzFeed News tracked down President Joe Biden's Venmo account and the accounts of people in …