Here’s a feature-by-feature rundown. For the past couple of months, I’ve been using a prerelease smartphone operating system that represents a significant design overhaul, with a greater focus on ...

As previewed last November, Google Home for Android is giving the media controller a Material 3 redesign. From the Favorites ...

While we’re waiting for the audio recorder redesign with noise cancellation and Voice Moods to become available, Google Messages has updated the playback UI to make use of the new Material 3 slider.

The volume slider has switched over to Material 3 Expressive, just like the brightness slider. That means a scrollable bar with a line through it that more precisely shows the position you’ve set.

MD3 Sliders in action As we mentioned earlier, Google is still midway through an update making these new MD3 bars the standard across all its apps. However, you can see a few examples of the new ...