What it’s good to know
- Customers are beginning to obtain a Google Messages replace that removes its facet nav drawer, which contained a number of choices like Archive, Spam & blocked, and extra.
- These can now be discovered by tapping your Google account picture on the suitable facet of the app.
- The steady replace can be eradicating the three organizational tabs beforehand discovered on the high of the app.
It seems to be like Google is sticking to its weapons and transferring ahead with a change that utterly un-dos a earlier addition.
As detailed by 9to5Google, the corporate is rolling out a steady replace for Messages that removes the hamburger menu nav drawer from the highest left facet. As a substitute, what Google has opted for is storing all the drawer’s earlier contents right into a consumer’s tappable profile icon on the suitable facet of the app. From there, you will discover Archive, Spam & blocked, Mark all as learn, and Machine pairing.
Google Messages’ helpful class tabs, “All,” “Private,” and “Enterprise,” have additionally disappeared within the newest replace for customers. Nonetheless, it seems to be just like the “Auto-delete OTPs after 24 hours” nonetheless exists; it is simply tucked additional away within the app’s settings.
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Except for extra noticeable (and questionable) modifications, Google is switching issues up aesthetically, as effectively. The newest replace removes the top-most search bar, changing it with a smaller magnifying glass beside a consumer’s Google account icon on the suitable. Tapping this can give customers a view into a number of app shortcuts for starred threads, movies, photos, hyperlinks, and extra.
And rather than the hamburger menu icon, which was beforehand there for the navigation drawer, is the corporate’s quad-colored “G” icon.
As beforehand acknowledged, Google’s newest modifications to Messages are rolling out now for all customers. Remember that these rollouts generally tend to look slowly — particularly for everybody. So, whilst you may not discover them at this time, verify once in a while for an replace for Messages.
This can be a curious transfer on Google’s half, however it hasn’t come out of left area. The model was testing these modifications again in June and has seemingly gone forwards and backwards with its design ever since. The nav drawer was short-lived as Google launched it early in 2022, so it is solely been round for a yr and alter. The aim of it was to alleviate a number of the congestion packed into the app’s earlier three-dot menu system, which already has fairly just a few goodies tucked into it.
Equally, Messages’ three group tabs had been totally launched across the similar time final yr, too. It was the primary time customers outdoors of India had been in a position to get their arms on the choices.
