Google fixes one of the Clock app’s most confusing redesigns
 

TL;DR

• Clock is dialing back its support for wallpaper backgrounds, to make sure you can still read the time.
• Google’s also beginning to remove references from Assistant within the app.
• Going forward, we may see a new “pulsing” effect for the time.

These past few months have been busy ones for many of Google’s Android apps, as the company has been sprucing up their looks with a fresh touch of Material 3 Expressive. While we’ve generally been fans of the changes, not every swing in this Expressive direction is going to be a hit. And even though we saw Google take a very slow, measured approach to deploying these updates, some of those less-than-successful tweaks have managed to slip through to public releases. The good news is that Google is learning from your feedback, and already appears to be correcting just such an oversight.

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Earlier this year, when we saw Google Clock preparing some of its own Material 3 Expressive changes, we spotted a new look in the works for how alarms appeared, replacing the solid background with your wallpaper:




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