Google is freshening up its Cellphone app with a brand new interface that’s alleged to make it simpler to search out contacts and your calls. The test is gradually rolling out to a few of Google’s public beta customers, and in addition consists of some fashion adjustments that align with Android’s younger Materials 3 Expressive design language.
For starters, Google has modified up the underside menu bar, changing the “Favorites,” “Recents,” “Contacts,” and “Voicemail” tabs with simply three choices: “Dwelling,” “Keypad,” and “Voicemail.” Below the brand new Dwelling tab, you’ll discover your favorites in bubbles on the prime of your display, nevertheless it’s now adopted by a name log listing that now not nests calls from the identical individual underneath one entry. Meaning you’ll see every name as a brand new entry (even when it’s your mother calling you 5 instances in a row once you don’t choose up).
Google can be making an attempt out a brand new gesture that may let you swipe horizontally to reply or decline a name. The corporate says it’s testing this characteristic based mostly on suggestions that this may assist stop unintended declines or solutions whereas taking your telephone out of your pocket.
Except for these adjustments, you’ll additionally see some visible updates within the app, with the incoming name web page now framing your contact in a extra whimsical, lumpy circle.