Google has been working on a Gemini app redesign for the past few months, and we now have our first look at the full overhaul.
The homepage sees Gemini switch to a pill-shaped prompt box. Voice input and Gemini Live are at the right, but there’s otherwise just a ‘plus’ button. This opens a bottom sheet with a carousel that lets you open “Photos,” launch your “Camera,” and see recent images. You can find Files, Notebooks, and “More uploads” at the bottom of the sheet.
Tools appear in the list below with descriptions: Images, Videos, Music, Canvas, Deep research, and Guided learning. Google has been testing this unified approach on Android and desktop web, while it’s already live in Gemini for Mac.
Elsewhere on the homepage, the greeting is now “Hi [name], what’s on your mind?” It’s centered with the Gemini spark just above. The big change is a colorful, pulsating background with a gradient effect.
Google has gone back to placing the model picker in the top-left corner as a dropdown menu. There’s also an updated icon set in use that favors thin, rounded outlines.
Across it, you’ll just find the temporary chat button. Google has moved the account switcher to the bottom of the navigation drawer in a big departure for first-party apps.
When you enter a prompt, the gradient background is fully leveraged and the effect is gorgeous:
In chats, Google has moved “See thinking steps” to the overflow menu, with that thought process appearing as a bottom sheet.
On iOS, this redesign heavily leverages Liquid Glass. Earlier this week, initial support was introduced, but this goes a step further. It remains to be seen how this redesign looks on Android.
There are a handful of iOS reports in the past day or so seeing this redesign, but this is still a limited rollout.
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