{"id":652374,"date":"2026-05-06T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:46:13","slug":"google-tasks-rolling-out-material-3-expressive-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652374\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tasks rolling out Material 3 Expressive widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-App-Logo-2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Workspace team is finally getting around to updating the Google Tasks widget on Android with Material 3 Expressive.<\/p>\n<p>This tweak starts with the \u2018plus\u2019 button in the top-right corner getting placed in a pill-shaped container, like <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/14\/gmail-widget-material-3-expressive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gmail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/08\/06\/google-drive-m3-expressive-widget-redesign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Drive<\/a>. The background of this button is themed and better stands out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Old vs. new<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"714071\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=714071\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-old-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-old-1.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"714070\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=714070\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-new-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-new-1.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The other change is to the background of the widget in dark mode. Google Tasks picks up proper Dynamic Color theming that allows the widget to better fit in on your homescreen. There are no significant changes to the light theme.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>This redesign is rolling out via a server-side update with <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.tasks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 2026.04.27.x<\/a> of Google Tasks for Android. It\u2019s not yet widely rolled out today and only appearing on one of our devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google Tasks hasn\u2019t had any major updates in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/15\/google-keep-reminders-migration-tasks-wide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent months<\/a>, though it\u2019s set for a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/26\/gmail-google-gradient-redesign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new icon as we previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"714073\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=714073\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-old-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-old-2.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"714072\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=714072\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-new-2.png.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Tasks-widget-new-2.png.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777325120_432_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Workspace team is finally getting around to updating the Google Tasks widget on Android with Material 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-652374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}