Google Messages has redesigned the UI for taking and sending footage that completely merges a dwell digicam viewfinder together with your gallery. As a part of this, Google can be rolling out the flexibility to ship footage and movies in “Unique high quality.”
For the time being, tapping the Gallery icon subsequent to the textual content subject slides up a miniature digicam viewfinder, “Folders” entry, and reveals about 4 current photos.
Sooner or later, Google Messages will open a brand new fullscreen UI upon tapping that Gallery button. A digicam viewfinder takes up many of the display screen. That is the present interface with face filters, and Picture and Video mode switchers on the backside.
Beneath that’s an always-present sheet together with your gallery that reveals three photos in full. You may slide you to see a full grid, whereas “Folders” takes you to the system photograph picker.
Google is making some attention-grabbing decisions right here. Changing the present picture picker, which is extra compact and retains you within the dialog, for a fullscreen UI feels cumbersome. Merging the digicam viewfinder together with your gallery can be a curious choice.
In the meantime, after taking a brand new photograph or deciding on an present one, you’re delivered to a brand new preview display screen, which nonetheless reveals the gallery sheet on the backside. This UI notes who you’re sending the picture to on the prime and allows you to “Write a caption.” Google examined one thing comparable again in March.
From the top-right nook, you’ll be able to entry a “Media high quality” sheet:
- Optimize for chat: Ship high quality media quicker, makes use of much less knowledge
- Unique high quality: Sends at full decision
The latter is marked by an “HD+” icon. As soon as that is rolled out, Google will take away the “Ship photographs quicker” on/off toggle in Settings.
We’ve obtained a handful of studies this week about this new merged digicam and gallery within the newest Google Messages beta (20241118_03_RC00). It’s not but extensively rolled out.
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