Tech Desk 
Nov 02, 2024
Google Discover, a feature available on most Android phones, may soon look very different. Google is currently testing a redesign in the latest beta version of the Google app (v15.43), giving Discover a cleaner, more modern appearance with some significant tweaks.
Although only available to a small group of users for now, this new design could change how people use Discover to find news, updates, and topics of interest.
Google Discover update
The current layout of Google Discover hasn’t changed much over the years, but this new design, spotted, introduces "Material You" style updates.
Each topic in Discover now appears on an individual card, with no lines dividing items. This streamlined look includes taller images, making them more prominent on the screen.
While the share and save buttons used to sit on each card, they’ve now been moved inside an overflow menu, keeping the layout simple.
One quirky change in this test version is the presence of two overflow menu buttons on some topic cards, a likely error that Google will probably fix in future updates.
There’s also a new card type that suggests relevant topics with an easy-to-add “plus” button. This feature could help users personalise their Discover feed even more, making it easier to follow topics they enjoy.
Additionally, the bottom navigation bar in this test version shows just three tabs: Home, Search, and Saved. The Notifications tab, seen in the current version, is missing, which may simplify navigation for users.
It’s important to remember that Google often experiments with changes like these, but not all updates make it to the stable version of the Google app.
