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Google has begun rolling out a redesigned Messages interface featuring large circular icons for pinned conversations, replacing the previous small pin-icon indicator. Users can press and hold to rearrange pinned chats, and new messages now show a preview instead of the contact's profile photo. The redesign reduces the maximum number of pinned chats from 20 to six.
Android Authority found code in a recent Google Messages build showing Google testing a redesigned pinned chats experience. Planned changes include an animated Material 3 Expressive typing indicator that replaces the plain 'typing' text with a moving contact photo, plus thumbnail previews for images, videos and GIFs instead of generic labels. The teardown also revealed a feature to pin or unpin multiple contacts at once, though none of these features are live yet.