{"id":491774,"date":"2026-06-10T03:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491774\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:09:12","slug":"google-chat-icon-tweaked-to-look-less-like-google-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491774\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chat icon tweaked to look less like Google Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Chat-cover.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/04\/google-workspace-android-icons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Workspace icons<\/a> fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of color (green vs. blue), but the design has more than a few similarities. Both consist of two layered chat bubbles with tails that are on the left side, though they face opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Old<\/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--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"535\" data-id=\"717733\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=717733\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/Google-Chat-Messages-icon-old.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Chat-Messages-icon-old.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The similarities become most apparent in the status bar. Chat\u2019s first design was a straightforward adaptation and shrink in white, with a tiny smile serving as the primary differentiator from Messages. At small sizes, the two icons are easily confused.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your company uses Google Chat as its primary messaging platform (like Google does internally), this would be particularly annoying for personal vs. work communication. (For comparison, Google Chat has over 50 million downloads on the Play Store, while Messages sits at 10+ billion.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Google Chat status bar icon has now been updated with an outline-style design that does distinguish things. The hollow nature helps quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">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--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"535\" data-id=\"717734\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=717734\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/Google-Chat-Messages-icon-new.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Chat-Messages-icon-new.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This change is live with <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.dynamite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 2026.06.01.x<\/a> of Google Chat for Android, which widely rolled out yesterday. Last week, the gradient Google Workspace icons fully launched, with Gmail for Android being the holdout.\u00a0<\/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\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/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\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/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":"With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-491774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}