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Tl; DR
- Google Keep Material 3’s expressive makeover started to move to users.
- It makes visual changes for several user interface elements, including the search bar, the toolbar and the search filters.
- The overhaul is not widely available at the moment, but it should reach more users in the coming days.
Google regularly updates its applications in accordance with the new expressive design language of Android, and Google Keep is the last to receive an expressive makeover. As spotted in a dismantling earlier this year, the update makes changes for the application search bar and other elements of the user interface, giving the application a new look.
The expressive redesign of Google Keep Material 3 takes place to certain users of version 5.25.252.00.90, but it is not yet widely available. According to User reports on TelegramIt includes a slightly larger but narrower search bar which no longer hosts the account switch and hamburger menu buttons. Google has also updated the text inside the search bar, which now indicates “maintenance of research” instead of “searching for your notes” and the shape of search filter chips.
The overhaul also makes visual changes in the toolbar, which now includes larger icons with rounded backgrounds. The buttons at the top of the publishing screen received similar rounded backgrounds, and the images of images in the notes now include margins to the left and right and rounded corners.
Although minimal, these modifications give Google a more modern look that is closely aligned with the new Android design language. Other Google applications, including Gmail, Google Wallet and Google Phone, have received similar changes in recent weeks, and it should not be long before Google published the expressive overhaul for the rest of the applications of its portfolio.
