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TL;DR Our APK teardown of the Google app found that Google is testing several Gemini UI changes, including a new Discover tab.
The Gemini sidebar may be getting a redesign, with a new layout and a settings shortcut.
Gemini’s “Thinking” responses could be moved to a bottom sheet with additional model details.
The Gemini UI seems to be an almost constant work-in-progress, especially in recent days. Just yesterday, we spotted a new way to branch conversations into separate chats being tested within the app, and it now looks like Google is also tinkering with how the app looks and feels, with several UI changes showing up in the latest beta.
While digging into version 17.10.54.sa.arm64 of the Google app, we were able to activate a handful of in-progress Gemini changes. None of these are live yet, and some are clearly unfinished, but they offer a look at where the interface could be heading.
One of the more intriguing additions is a new “Discover” option in the Gemini sidebar. Right now, Gemini’s sidebar is mostly focused on navigation, letting you jump between chats and access core sections of the app. The new Discover entry appears alongside those options, but tapping it currently leads to an empty page. That makes it hard to pin down exactly what Google has planned here, though the name suggests it could surface things like featured prompts or ways to explore what Gemini can do. It’s basically just a placeholder for now, but you can see it in the images below.
Google also seems to be experimenting with changes to the Gemini sidebar UI, although things are a bit messy at this stage. In its current form, the sidebar is fairly simple, with your chat history and a few navigation options. One version we enabled looked very similar to the existing layout but failed to load chats altogether, suggesting it’s not fully wired up yet.
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