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Last year, Google Drive’s Material 3 Expressive redesign rolled out in a piecemeal fashion and saw one aspect revert. The full revamp with the container component is now available. 

Zooming out, it’s amusing that Apple and Google both chose 2025 to overhaul the design language of their operating systems. Android’s Material 3 Expressive redesign has been well received, but I want to focus on the updates to Google apps.  

Following the editor updates in August, the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides homepages are now getting a Material 3 Expressive redesign.

Google today is celebrating the 15th birthday of Play Books. The service started as “Google eBooks” on December 6, 2010. 

Besides announcing Call Reason this week, Phone by Google is testing a shorter bottom bar to comply with Material 3 Expressive.

Following the Android version in June, the Google Account page on the web has been redesigned and simplified with Material 3 Expressive elements.

Following the initial wave of Material 3 Expressive, Google is working to redesign the remaining components to the latest design language, and menus are up this month. 

As has become tradition, Google Play has returned to mark the end of another year with its roundup of the best Android apps and games from 2025.

These days, there’s a pretty good chance whatever movie or TV show you’re looking for is available for streaming — the question is, which streaming app is it actually on? Google is attempting to make your Friday night process of finding something to watch a little easier with an upgrade to search in the Play Store.

Google has launched a new “excessive partial wake locks” metric for Android app developers that will result in Play Store warnings for end users.

Besides the AI-powered coach, the Fitbit redesign introduces Material 3 Expressive to the Android app.

The rollout of Chrome’s M3 Expressive redesign, which began in late August, is now complete. It comes a few weeks after most first-party apps have received their updates.

We’re due for some big changes coming to the Play Store after the results of the Google-Epic lawsuit, but an additional extension could give the company the final change to overturn the case it’s been looking for.

After debuting on the Pixel 10 (version 10.0), Google is rolling out the Pixel Camera 10.1 update to older devices with a handful of Material 3 Expressive tweaks.

Ahead of the Pixel Watch 4 launching next week, the majority of Google’s Wear OS apps now have Material 3 Expressive redesigns, with Home and Keep being the most recent updates.

Besides other incoming updates, the Google Play Store now lets you directly buy digital gift cards on Android.

The Material 3 Expressive redesign of Google Wallet for Android is finally seeing a wider rollout today. 

The fullscreen Google Account switcher started rolling out earlier this year, and the menu redesign is now coming to the remaining first-party apps.

Following the initial rollout, Google apps have been adding to or refining their Material 3 Expressive redesigns. Google Drive might now be toning down one aspect of M3 Expressive.

As part of the upcoming M3 Expressive redesign, Google Clock for Wear OS has new app icons for Alarm, Stopwatch, and Timer. 

Since the Pixel 10 and Android 16 launch, the pace of M3 Expressive updates has slowed down, but Google Maps is readying some tweaks.

After the initial wave of M3 Expressive, the Gmail for Android redesign continues by placing each email in a container.

In addition to the broader Material 3 Expressive update, Google Drive is redesigning the editor you get after using the document scanner.