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Google rolling out gradient icon redesigns for Contacts, Messages, and Phone
Following the Workspace and Pixel app redesigns earlier this year, Google is overhauling the Contacts, Messages, and Phone icons.
Google says the “icons are sharper and clearer” on homescreens thanks to a “subtle but crisp gradient with easily readable edges.”
The general shapes of Google’s communication apps remain unchanged, but the redesign brings “updated curvature and coloring to align with the rest of the Google apps you know and love.”
This change is rolling out over the coming weeks via the Play Store, and is already live with the latest Google Messages beta this morning. Google emphasizes that there are no functional changes with this update.
Don’t worry, the functionality of these apps isn’t changing as a result of the new icons. You’ll simply spot a sleeker, more cohesive look on your home screen in the coming weeks.
The new icons should also appear on contacts.google.com and messages.google.com/web.
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