What you must know
- Users are beginning to obtain a Google Messages update 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 precise facet of the app.
- The secure update can also be eradicating the three organizational tabs beforehand discovered on the prime of the app.
It seems like Google is sticking to its weapons and transferring ahead with a change that fully un-dos a earlier addition.
As detailed by 9to5Google, the corporate is rolling out a secure update for Messages that removes the hamburger menu nav drawer from the highest left facet. Instead, what Google has opted for is storing the entire drawer’s earlier contents right into a consumer’s tappable profile icon on the precise facet of the app. From there, you will discover Archive, Spam & blocked, Mark all as learn, and Device pairing.
Google Messages’ helpful class tabs, “All,” “Personal,” and “Business,” have additionally disappeared within the newest update for customers. However, it seems 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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Aside from extra noticeable (and questionable) modifications, Google is switching issues up aesthetically, as effectively. The newest update removes the top-most search bar, changing it with a smaller magnifying glass beside a consumer’s Google account icon on the precise. Tapping it will give customers a view into a number of app shortcuts for starred threads, movies, photographs, 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 said, Google’s newest modifications to Messages are rolling out now for all customers. Keep in thoughts that these rollouts tend to look slowly — particularly for everybody. So, when you may not discover them at this time, examine now and again for an update for Messages.
This is a curious transfer on Google’s half, nevertheless it hasn’t come out of left subject. 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 goal of it was to alleviate a number of the congestion packed into the app’s earlier three-dot menu system, which already has fairly a couple of goodies tucked into it.
Similarly, Messages’ three group tabs had been totally launched across the similar time final yr, too. It was the primary time customers exterior of India had been capable of get their fingers on the choices.