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The most popular OS in the world has never looked better thanks to Material 3 Expressive. Here's how it stacks up against Android 15.
As Google beautifully puts it, Material 3 Expressive is all about"vibrant colors, intuitive motion, adaptive components, flexible typography, and contrasting shapes", and that's pretty much the gist of the upcoming restyling. QPR1 beta introduces Material 3 Expressive to any eligible Pixel phones, allowing any adventurous user with a Pixel phone lying around to try it out for a spin.
For one, you can now change the general shape and size of the existing tiles, which was previously unavailable on"stock". By default, the older quick settings tiles all used the same elongated squircle shape, which displays a lot of useful info but also takes up a lot of precious space. , any tile can be changed from the default long squircle to a way more compact one.
The changes here are mostly in the presentation. The interface is slightly flashier, but the overall theme here is that the magical ergonomic essence achieved by's customization menu is missing here––while the options are there, they're tucked away in dedicated menus and not immediately available, making personalization a few extra swipes or taps away.
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