They really didn't have to redesign a text box. Please stop reinventing the wheel. I don't need another pop up in my life.
Does anyone else feel like the quality of the keyboard swipe auto-complete has completely tanked as well?
Just like their search engine, every version of Android gets worse.
It's impressive how modern companies with thousands of professional designers manage to make increasingly goofy designs lol
"Modern" (i.e. Apple-chasing) design seems to be hellbent on wasting as much screen space as possible.
Apples actually generally pretty good at not wasting much screen space.
To prove yourself as a executive you have to make the company do stuff, so people come up with reasons to do wasteful things. It's all a circle of shit people being shitty to get ahead.
I thought this was just me but I swear this is so fucking annoying
Completely unnecessary filler space
Lol I'm glad other people are talking about it because same.. I updated it and noticed immediately and thought it felt/looked a little odd. Here's to hoping they listen to feedback if enough is provided! I've enjoyed the app, otherwise, for the RCS and what not.
Maybe they reserve that space for future AI suggestions?
Almost certainly the answer. Same reason they just hobbled their "ok Google" by not letting you access it with the screen off anymore. They're going to switch engines and they want to reintroduce the same features all over again but make it feel like an upgrade.
"We can't remember what happened last quarter, so surely our users won't remember how their phones used to be better! Genius! Moving on, time to go make and destroy a new app, how about a notepad app this time?" --Google
On the new pixels, as you start typing you get some AI tools that will rewrite your message, make suggestions, etc
Pixel 7 Pro here, haven't seen this at all, it's just dead space for me.
The 7 isn't new anymore. That person meant the 8
Pixel 8 pro here. I haven't seen it either.
A tragedy. I hate that little useless space. Those features should be on Gboard not messages
Okay, so I'm not crazy. I started seeing this today, and I had to stop and think "Wait, was this always here?"
It boggles my mind how people in the US still use SMS.
I guess we cant all be enlightened enough to trust Facebook with everything.
Based on experience dealing with people outside the US for my job, I'd say this person is implying whatsapp as the alternative.
I personally don't see the point from within the states, given that whatsapp forces you to connect your number to it anyway.
I use it because it is more convenient than chat apps.
It's built-in and just works. It's also platform independent. I only use it for family though. I use chat apps for friends because they don't have my mobile number.
And SMS isn't WhatsApp which is a great thing. Not that I know anyone except my mother that uses it.
Btw, I'm not in the USA.
I don't know how to edit the main post on mobile so I'll just add this comment. The message I typed in the screenshot populates in a "pop up bar". The message no longer gets entered where you think it should go and it looks like shit and takes up extra screen space for no reason. I really dislike this change.
They fixed it. It's back to normal now.
It's so bad I uninstalled all updates and went back to the version that shipped with the phone. That got rid of it.
I tried to install other versions from apkmirror but the design has been in there a while and they turned it on server side. My P8 shipped with
messages.android _20230529_03_RCO1
and it's gone for me.
Yup hate the new update. I have a weird problem with deleting words too with the backspace since the update. Will probably revert to Samsung messages soon.
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