Like on Android phones, Google Messages is testing a straightforward M3 Expressive redesign on Wear OS.
Overall, the changes are quite subtle, with the homescreen mostly the same. When you tap “Start chat” at the top and open the dialer, you see that the numbers are placed in pills. The Google Phone app will presumably go the same route.
There are more updates in the conversation view. The emoji, microphone, and keyboard buttons are now pills instead of circles, and placed in a container.
The suggested replies (Yes, No, OK) are grouped together instead of being standalone buttons. However, Call, View people, Delete conversation, and Open on phone are pills for a nice separation.
Google Messages for Wear OS is making use of the new read receipts that place the checkmarks in a circle. This is not yet rolled out on phones.
We’re seeing this M3 Expressive redesign with the beta release of Google Messages for Wear OS. On phones, Google looks to have rolled back the M3E redesign of the conversation view for testers.
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