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TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that the Pixel Camera app will receive a redesign.
The redesign currently extends to the settings menu and offers an overhaul in line with the Material 3 Expressive design language.
This comes after we discovered a slew of other Google apps with an overhauled visual style.
Google just launched Android 16, but the platform’s big visual overhaul based on Material 3 Expressive is coming later this year. That hasn’t stopped us from uncovering redesigned Google apps, and we’ve now got our first peek at the tweaked Pixel Camera app.
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We conducted a teardown of the Pixel Camera app (version 9.9.106.767010485.16) and discovered an overhauled settings menu. These changes aren’t live yet, but we enabled them nonetheless. Check out the screenshots below.
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This redesigned settings menu features redesigned toggles, complete with a tick or “x” so you can easily tell whether an option is on or off. Settings are also placed in white boxes with rounded corners, while lines divide multiple settings in one box.
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