New Gemini icon involves Android and iPhone

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Updates this week to the Gemini app on Android and iPhone introduce a brand new app icon that adopts the 4 Google colours.

The brand new four-color brand takes after each different Google icon. It’s nonetheless predominantly blue on the proper, whereas the opposite factors are purple, yellow, and inexperienced. There’s additionally a pleasant gradient at center-left like the present ‘G’ icon.

The 4 factors are rounded and never as sharp as earlier than for a friendlier look. At small sizes, like in your homescreen, it means the icon doesn’t fade out into very skinny strains.

Lastly, the brand new brand is barely bigger than the final one and takes up extra of the white round background, which all the time helps. Finally, Google transferring to purple, yellow, inexperienced, and blue brings Gemini into the fold, and may be seen as an indication of confidence. The flicker form is exclusive sufficient so it shouldn’t be simply confused with different first-party functions.

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After Android and iPhone, we’re nonetheless ready for the brand new Gemini icon on gemini.google.com.

Outdated vs. new

With this replace, Google has additionally tweaked the homescreen widget on Android. (There are not any modifications to the iOS model.) Moreover the brand new icon, there at the moment are shortcuts for Video and Screenshare that launch these Gemini Reside modes straight. It’s fairly handy, with Google emphasizing these new actions in smaller configurations.

General, the widget is much less dense than earlier than, with one much less shortcut at some sizes. At 3×3 and above, you get all eight shortcuts: open app (with keyboard activated), voice enter, Digital camera, Gallery, Recordsdata, Video, Screenshare, and Reside. Lastly, the “Ask Gemini” area is now simply the “Gemini” bar with Google now not giving it a separate Dynamic Shade background.

As of Friday, model 1.0.776555963 of the Gemini app is now broadly accessible through the Play Retailer. On iOS, model 1.2025.2562103 rolled out on Wednesday, with Google making official the flexibility to look previous conversations, like on the net. Faucet the chat icon within the top-left nook for the brand new search area, with this characteristic not but on Android.