{"id":833740,"date":"2025-03-13T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/yes-google-messages-made-the-text-field-bigger\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:12:52","slug":"yes-google-messages-made-the-text-field-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/yes-google-messages-made-the-text-field-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Google Messages made the text field bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/Google-Messages-logo-1.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600\" alt  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/03\/google-messages-text-field-redesign-late-2024\/\">Back in December<\/a>, Google Messages rolled out the latest text field redesign and a new version makes it ever so slightly bigger.<\/p>\n<p>As seen below, the pill-shaped field is now a bit taller with more padding above and below the line of buttons. It fits the Material 3 design language, with Phone by Google recently <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/15\/google-phone-history-filters\/\">getting an updated<\/a> search field. The circular voice memos shortcut that turns into the send button has been similarly enlarged.<\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to button placement, with the \u2018plus\u2019 menu appearing at the left followed by the smiley face emoji shortcut and gallery. When you tap on the text field (to launch your keyboard), the gallery now animates out in a nice touch. We\u2019re seeing this with <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/apps\/testing\/com.google.android.apps.messaging\/join\">beta version<\/a> 20250224_01_RC00.<\/p>\n<p>Google has yet to widely roll out this text field redesign. Google Messages spent 2024 going through various designs before reverting to the original (cramped) look until that beta rollout in December. This will hopefully be the final iteration ahead of a wide stable launch.<\/p>\n<p><em>Old vs. new<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-google-messages\">More on Google Messages:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/26\/pixel-scam-detection-messages-phone\/\">Pixel rolling out Scam Detection to Phone app, Google Messages in March<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/24\/google-messages-missing-read-receipts-issue\/\">Google Messages RCS read receipts missing for some conversations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/22\/google-messages-camera-gallery-redesign\/\">Google Messages redesigns gallery + camera, adds \u2018Original quality\u2019 sending [U]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=660590&#038;action=edit\">Google Messages preps deleting sent RCS messages \u2018for everyone\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMqA-Qow-c_gAg?hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<em>Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed.<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4aSyWvz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/Roborock-Feb-2025.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p> Abner Li<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/26\/google-messages-bigger-text-field\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in December, Google Messages rolled out the latest text field redesign and a new version makes it ever so slightly bigger. As seen below, the pill-shaped field is now a bit taller with more padding above and below the line of buttons. It fits the Material 3 design language, with Phone by Google recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,3231],"tags":[5220,5648],"class_list":{"0":"post-833740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"category-messages","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-messages"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}