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TL;DR
- Private Security is rolling out an replace that implements a brand new coloration scheme.
- Whereas the app nonetheless doesn’t use your system palette, it does enhance readability.
- Google has managed to mess up clock rendering, although, with the time becoming poorly on the display screen.
Builders like Google are continuously attempting out new seems to be for his or her apps, and never everybody’s going to be a fan of each change. However even when we choose one structure over one other, or thought an outdated workflow was superior, we typically count on these adjustments to nonetheless operate correctly — it’s one factor to go in a brand new route we’re not bought on but; it’s fairly one other to interrupt one thing.
That’s simply what we noticed occurring with Google’s Clock app just lately, and whereas it nonetheless instructed the time simply superb, updates to how the app rendered its font had these numerals leaping in all places, or not even becoming correctly on the display screen. Google spoke as much as reassure customers that it knew what was incorrect and was engaged on a repair, however now we’ve noticed one other clock-related challenge in one other Google app redesign.
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We’re taking a look at model 2025.08.06.791860033.0-release_gms of Google’s Private Security app. We already noticed the app begin choosing up new Materials 3 Expressive parts earlier this summer season, and whereas Google isn’t significantly altering any of that right here, it has blessed the app with a brand new coloration palette.
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Thus far, so good. Whereas the app nonetheless doesn’t take note of your system coloration theme for its Materials palette, these are all fairly good adjustments than improve distinction and assist with visibility — which for an app like Private Security, is all of the extra essential. And if it weren’t for one little clock, we would name this replace an unambiguous win:
Nicely, perhaps not so “little,” really. Similar to we noticed with the Clock app itself, Google has an actual downside proper now getting the time to render in a dimension that is sensible. Right here it’s proper on the edge of truly introducing readability issues, however we expect we will safely say this isn’t how Google supposed issues to look.
It’s a bit irritating to see oversights like this when putting in a brand new replace, however all issues thought-about, we will’t discover a lot purpose to get too bent off form right here. Hopefully no matter Google’s engaged on for the Clock repair can even assist right here — if these even are linked in any respect, and we’re not simply witnessing a weird spate of unrelated Google-app clock bugs.
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