Stephen Schenck / Android Authority
TL;DR The new Google Clock Material 3 Expressive redesign glitches, with jittering digits as the time moves.
Some layouts are messy under specific settings, forcing scrolling or text wrapping.
Complaints are piling up on Reddit and Google’s support forum.
Google’s flashy Expressive makeover for the Clock app was supposed to be a simple style update, but plenty of people are unimpressed, to say the least. Across Reddit and Google support forums, people are finding the redesigned app jittery, awkward, and generally a bit of a mess.
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On the r/GooglePixel subreddit, one complaint shows the time jittering every second in the World Clock view, with the font resizing and the lower UI shifting around each time the digits change. “It’s so bad it’s funny,” reads the most upvoted response.
It’s a similar story over on r/NothingTech, with another video highlighting the jittery issue on the stopwatch. The variable-width font makes the numbers shift horizontally as they tick up, giving the impression that the whole display is unstable. It’s not exactly ideal when trying to focus on precise timing. Some users said enabling bold text makes it even worse. The video below comes from AleksLevet’s Reddit post.
This horizontal movement of the numbers isn’t the only design gripe. A separate post from a Nothing user shows that the oversized new layout can no longer fit all controls on one page, forcing them to scroll slightly to see everything.
Google Part of the image posted by user Hia3 on the Google Support forum.
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