Google Phone app on Wear OS gets Material 3 Expressive redesign

Besides updates to the Contacts app, Phone by Google has received a sizable Material 3 Expressive redesign on Wear OS.

Previously, the Phone app’s homepage on Wear OS was a list to access Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Dialpad, and Voicemail. It very much belonged to the early days of Wear OS, if not Android Wear, design.

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Now, Phone by Google opens to a Recents feed with each card leveraging Dynamic Color. Two large buttons at the top let you access contacts and the dialer.

The Dialpad benefits from Material 3 Expressive containers and theming, with scrolling down letting you access *, #, and + like before.