- Google Messages is the latest Wear OS app to receive Google’s Material 3 Expressive redesign.
- The update brings more consistent coloring, slight changes to shapes, and new icons to complement text.
- Google may be testing the update with a small set of users, since it has yet to reach a wider audience.
Google has already begun transitioning many of its apps to the new, more fluid and vivid Material 3 Expressive design philosophy. These changes haven’t been limited to Android phones or tablets and have also extended to other Google platforms, including Wear OS, where Google now appears to be rolling out the updated design theme to another app.
Google Messages is the latest Wear OS app to be updated with Material 3 Expressive elements. Among the chief changes we see here are more integrated UI elements, mainly including color-filled buttons and slightly tinted message blobs. Some buttons, including those for options in a list, are also shaped more dynamically to suggest a scrollable nature. Meanwhile, blobs for messages and conversations also assume a less rounded shape.