Android’s youthful new design will change the way you make and answer calls

Google is freshening up its Phone app with a caller interface that’s expected to marque it easier to find contacts and your calls. The test is gradually rolling out to immoderate of Google’s nationalist beta users, and besides includes immoderate benignant changes that align with Android’s much youthful Material 3 Expressive plan language.

For starters, Google has changed up the bottommost paper bar, replacing the “Favorites,” “Recents,” “Contacts,” and “Voicemail” tabs with conscionable 3 options: “Home,” “Keypad,” and “Voicemail.” Under the caller Home tab, you’ll find your favorites successful bubbles astatine the apical of your screen, but it’s present followed by a telephone log database that nary longer nests calls from the aforesaid idiosyncratic nether 1 entry. That means you’ll spot each telephone arsenic a caller introduction (even if it’s your ma calling you 5 times successful a enactment erstwhile you don’t prime up).

Google is besides trying retired a caller motion that volition let you to swipe horizontally to reply oregon diminution a call. The institution says it’s investigating this diagnostic based connected feedback that this volition assistance forestall accidental declines oregon answers portion taking your telephone retired of your pocket.

Aside from those changes, you’ll besides spot immoderate ocular updates successful the app, with the incoming telephone leafage present framing your interaction successful a much whimsical, lumpy circle. 

Google launched Android 16 earlier this period without including its large Material 3 Expressive redesign, which is present expected to rotation retired successful September. It besides introduced a caller “Pixel VIP” widget for Pixel phones that lets you spot much details astir your favourite contacts, specified arsenic their location, telephone history, and idiosyncratic notes.