Over the past few weeks, Google has gradually extended the new Material 3 Expressive graphic language to an increasing number of applications and system components, now The redesign is finally touching the pages of the Android System Intelligence settings.
A small update on distribution on Pixel smartphones with Android 16 QPR1 Beta introduces renewed interfaces for a series of key features, with an eye to visual clarity and accessibility.
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The Material 3 Expressive makes its way in the Android System Intelligence settings
Entering specifically, the new update has The configuration pages redesigned dedicated to Now Playing, AT A Glance, Live Translate, Apps in Search And Live Captions.
As often happens with Google’s redesome, the main goal is Make interfaces more consistent with the Material 3 Expressive guidelineswhich include more modern graphics with more distinct and visually separate cards, rounded interface elements and larger activation activation buttons, updated icons and clearer descriptions of the functions, new visual effects such as signs of check in crosses that indicate the activation or deactivation of a function (even if curiously not uniformly in all pages).
There is also some unpublished detail, for example on the page dedicated to subtitles in real time the option Word duration effect exhibition was renamed in Stretch wordswith an updated description that best explains its purpose.
As you can see from the images, the change is quite evident, the new pages appear more legible, with a style that closely takes up that of the new settings app introduced with Android 16 QPR1.
In particular the section Now Playing Now it offers more orderly graphics to activate or deactivate the automatic recognition of music, the settings of AT A GLANCE include a description of the features, and the cards for Live Translate And Live Captions They are clearer thanks to the redesigned buttons and the visual division of the options.
These are precautions that do not upset the substance of the functions, but contribute to a more uniform and pleasant experience of use, in line with the direction that Google has chosen to undertake all the Android ecosystem.
As anticipated, the changes are not yet available for everyone, At the moment they are exclusive of the Pixel devices updated to the latest Beta of Android 16 QPR1; If your smartphone is in the stable channel you will still have to have a little patience, Google should in fact bring the version of Android 16 just mentioned in stable form in September.
The Mountain View giant therefore continues the progressive release of Material 3 Expressive, with the aim of unifying the visual language of Android on every aspect of the system, from apps to the most hidden settings, in order to offer a coherent and recognizable experience.
