Google Gemini App Gets Major UI Redesign on iOS With Liquid Glass Effects

Google rolled out a sweeping visual redesign of the Gemini AI app on iOS featuring a pulsating gradient background, deep black immersive welcome screen with animated particle effects, and a pill-shaped frosted-glass input bar leveraging Apple's iOS 26 Liquid Glass design system. The model picker moved to a top-left dropdown, account switcher relocated to the bottom navigation drawer, and a unified tools section consolidates image generation, video creation, Canvas, and Deep Research. 'See thinking steps' moved to an overflow menu. The redesign is a limited/staged rollout on iOS first, with an Android version using Material 3 Expressive reportedly in development.