{"id":49539,"date":"2025-08-07T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49539\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:19:10","slug":"google-app-tests-more-prominent-ai-mode-and-live-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49539\/","title":{"rendered":"Google app tests more prominent AI Mode and Live access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ai-mode-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As AI Mode comes to more users around the world, Google is testing more prominent ways to surface the capability (and Live) on mobile.<\/p>\n<p>The previous design placed a very prominent button for AI Mode in the Search bar with a multi-color rotating ring. The next line let you access Live, voice search, and Google Lens. As you scroll the Discover feed, the microphone and Lens appear in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Google is now testing a new look that brings back the old Search bar. Below that you just get two large pill-shaped buttons for \u201cAI Mode\u201d and \u201cLive\u201d with text labels accompanying the icons. This is arguably a more straightforward and descriptive approach, especially if the Live icon isn\u2019t common knowledge yet. However, it\u2019s less vibrant from a color standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing the AI Mode and Live shortcuts with the latest Google app beta. It\u2019s not yet widely available.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/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-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"920\" data-id=\"682574\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/27\/google-search-widget-ai-mode\/google-app-ai-mode-new-1\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Google-app-AI-Mode-new-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Google-app-AI-Mode-new-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-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"Google AI Mode Live\" data-height=\"980\" data-id=\"683457\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=683457\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/08\/Google-app-AI-Mode-Live-access.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Google-app-AI-Mode-Live-access.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This access point joins the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/27\/google-search-widget-ai-mode\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homescreen widget<\/a> and Pixel Launcher shortcuts for AI Mode, while it\u2019s also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/24\/chrome-new-tab-page-ai-mode\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chrome New Tab page<\/a> on desktop web.<\/p>\n<p>In other Google app developments, the \u201cActivity\u201d tab is testing new icons and names. There are two designs: \u201cYour space\u201d and \u201cLibrary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google app 16.30 (currently in beta) also removes the Assistant \u201cRoutines\u201d homescreen widget.<\/p>\n<p>More on AI Mode:<\/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":"As AI Mode comes to more users around the world, Google is testing more prominent ways to surface&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}