Google is rolling out a redesign of the Messages app’s Details experience that leverages Material 3 Expressive.
When you long-press on a message and tap the three-dot overflow menu for “View details,” you now get a fullscreen Details page.
It starts with a nice preview of the message, with the old dialog box sometimes covering things up. This redesign makes for a nice screenshot instead of capturing the main thread and then having to crop.
The “Status” section shows when a message was Read (filled-in circle), Delivered (two checkmarks), and Sent (checkmark) with the new indicators in use even if you don’t see them anywhere else in Google Messages. The single circle design first appeared last year, and is not yet widely rolled out. Its presence in the redesigned Wear OS app is a pretty strong sign it will eventually launch.
Old vs. new
Finally, there’s “From” with the name and number of the sender. It lacks information for “Type” (like “End-to-End Encrypted Rich Communication”) and “Priority.”
This page makes use of Material 3 Expressive’s containers, which has yet to launch in other parts of the app.
This Details redesign is widely rolling out on both stable (20250713_01_RC04) and beta (20250725_02_RC00) versions of Google Messages that we checked today.
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