Google is freshening up its Cellphone app with a brand new interface that’s speculated to make it simpler to seek 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 extra youthful Material 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: “House,” “Keypad,” and “Voicemail.” Below the brand new House tab, you’ll discover your favorites in bubbles on the high of your display screen, nevertheless it’s now adopted by a name log listing that now not nests calls from the identical individual beneath 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 whenever you don’t decide up).
Google can also be attempting out a brand new gesture that can let you swipe horizontally to reply or decline a name. The corporate says it’s testing this characteristic primarily based on suggestions that this can assist stop unintentional declines or solutions whereas taking your telephone out of your pocket.
Other than 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.