Google Assistant is preparing to go into retirement sometime later this year, and in addition to its duties, Gemini is also ready to assume the OG assistant’s uniform.
Since its early Bard days, Gemini has maintained its blue and purple hue branding across different sections of the app. Hints about that consistent color scheme changing started emerging earlier this month, albeit in beta. Well, those hints are materializing now, with Gemini now donning Google/Google Assistant’s classic red, yellow, green, and blue color scheme.
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Normally tied to the Google app, the change went live for me with the latest Google Gemini version 1.0.776555963 build, which is available now on the Play Store. If the update hasn’t rolled out to you yet, sideloading the build from APKMirror should work just fine.
Post-update, you should see a new Gemini logo in your app drawer. Well, to be precise, the logo retains its shape, but it four sides aren’t as sharp as before. More importantly, the filled color has changed to Google’s standard colors, as seen in the images below.
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Old (left), new (right)
The Gemini logo that appears next to the “Just a sec…” text when Gemini is forming a response retains its inner blue and purple hue, albeit with a new multi-colored outer glow that’s consistent with the overall refresh. The Gemini logo on the “Switch to Gemini” boarding screen also dons the new look.
It’s worth noting that older leaks suggested that the change would also make its way to the app’s splash screen, though that hasn’t materialized in the current stable rollout. The same goes for the home-screen greeting, which was previously reported to transition from its familiar blue and purple hue to an all-blue scheme. Those changes will likely arrive in a future update, potentially closer to the disapperance of Google Assistant.
What are your first impressions of this simple color tweak? Let us know in the comments below.
Thanks: Moshe!
