Google started launching a new design for the phone application on Android devices, starting with version 186, a sudden update that sparked a wave of controversy between users.
Although the changes aim to facilitate the experience of use and reduce the wrong calls resulting from unintended pressure, many considered that the update was not in their favor.
The most prominent changes in the interface
• The new design canceled the traditional tabs such as “favorite”, “recent calls” and “contacts”, to be combined into a single tab called “the main”.
• The favorite contacts are appearing in a roundabout on the list of calls.
• A new side menu that includes contacts, settings, and tools such as scanning call and assistance record.
• Call gestures have become an essential part, as the user can respond or refuse to call horizontal withdrawal, in an iOS -like step on iPhone.
• The active call interface was redesigned with oval buttons that turn into round rectangles when selected, with a large red call button in the middle of the screen.
Users discontent and wide criticism
Although Google promoted the update as enhancing the ease of use, the reactions came completely the opposite, and Android users criticized platforms such as “Redit” and “X” (formerly Twitter) the new design, describing the buttons as “huge and ugly”, while others considered that the changes are chaotic and impractical, one of the users of Reddit Books “The phone application was excellent, and now it is full With exaggerated and meaningless buttons, I did not make any update but suddenly appeared, “while another commented on X, saying:” The new design is an inner chaos. “
Attempts to circumvent gestures
Among the most controversial changes was the feature of the horizontal scroll for response or rejection, which some described as “compulsory” and similar to the iPhone method, and some users discovered that returning to the one -click option is still possible through the “incoming call gestures”, but the rest of the changes have no alternative solution yet.
