The piecemeal beta rollout of M3 Expressive (M3E) in the Google Phone app continues with version 185. Google is using M3 Expressive as an opportunity to revamp how the Phone app is organized, with iOS 26 amusingly also doing the same thing with its big Liquid Glass redesign this year. The “Favorites” tab is being merged with “Recents” and is …
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Google is rolling out a redesign of the Messages app’s Details experience that leverages Material 3 Expressive. When you long-press on a message and tap the three-dot overflow menu for “View details,” you now get a fullscreen Details page. It starts with a nice preview of the message, with the old dialog box sometimes covering things up. This redesign makes …
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Google is set to introduce several changes to the Android UI soon. The company’s new Material 3 Expressive design language is expected to debut with the Pixel 10 series launch next month. Ahead of that, Google has been updating its apps to match the new design language. We’ve already seen Google Keep adopt the updated UI, and now it looks …
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Like on the web, Google is rolling out a small redesign of the Gemini homepage and prompt bar on Android. The prompt bar remains at the bottom of the screen on mobile, but the feature chips have been moved into a “Tools” bottom sheet with the new icon appearing next to the ‘plus’ menu. On portrait screens, it makes for a …
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As announced in May, Google has given its default QR code scanner on Android an appreciable redesign. Upon launch (via the Quick Settings Tile or lockscreen shortcut), there’s a nice animation of the rounded square coming together. The primary visual change is how Google has consolidated all the buttons in this interface to a pill near the bottom of the …
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Since 2022’s Galaxy S22 Ultra, Samsung’s highest-end S-series phones have featured rear camera arrays without a camera island, but that may change with the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Long-time leaker Ice Universe has shared a fan-made render of the Galaxy S26 Ultra on the social media website X. He thinks it probably resembles the real phone. While he isn’t confident about …
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Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26 public beta is finally available, and with it the same Liquid Glass design language that’s coming to the rest of Apple’s operating systems. It’s a simultaneously weird yet milquetoast update. I’ve been testing the developer beta on an M4 MacBook Air since WWDC in June, and after using it through to the latest dev beta release …
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Google is gearing up for the latest homepage Gemini redesign on the web, with the prompt bar seeing a big change. This redesign starts by changing the “Hello, [name]” greeting to a generic “How can I help?” that feels a little bit less like an assistant. The main change is moving the prompt bar from the bottom of the screen …
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“Defendants’ misconduct was brazen and egregious,” says Apple’s filing. “After Mr. Prosser learned that Mr. Ramacciotti needed money, and that his friend Ethan Lipnik worked at Apple on unreleased software designs, Defendants jointly planned to access Apple’s confidential and trade secret information through Mr. Lipnik’s Apple-owned development iPhone.” Apple’s main source of information appears to be an audio message sent …
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