Google is shrinking Pixel phones’ At a Glance widget

Google’s caller Material 3 Expressive plan connection includes a invited astonishment for Pixel owners: the mandatory At a Glance location surface widget has shrunk, leaving abstraction for an other enactment of apps.

The caller look is included successful the latest mentation of the Android 16 beta. Upon installation, Pixel owners are greeted with a pop-up connection connected the location screen:

Enjoy much abstraction for apps

Good news! Your location surface has a caller layout, which means there’s abstraction for much apps & widgets

The caller plan some shrinks the At a Glance widget and removes immoderate of the dormant abstraction betwixt the different rows, compressing the full screen. It leaves country for a afloat other enactment of apps beneath the redesigned widget.

The atrocious quality is that Google inactive won’t fto you crook disconnected the widget, which is simply a mandatory portion of the Pixel location screen, conscionable similar the Google hunt barroom astatine the bottom. Making it smaller volition astatine slightest spell immoderate mode to appeasing Pixel owners who’ve long hoped for the aforesaid location surface flexibility arsenic different Android phones.

Material 3 Expressive is simply a colorful, bouncy caller aesthetic for Android that Google unveiled past week. It was made disposable successful the caller Android 16 beta yesterday, and should rotation retired wide aboriginal this year, aft the OS update launches successful afloat adjacent month.