Google Chat gets Material Design 3 makeover

Google Chat's interface gets redesigned to match the looks of Google's other productivity tools. And similar to Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc., the new look is based on the company's Material Design 3 system. The interface gets rounded buttons and a rounded search bar and blue accents all around. Some minor changes to the main message view, a new topic button, compose setup, and thread panel within direct messages and spaces.

Google Chat recently added a new feature that allowed Space Managers to create announcement-only channels, similar to what you can do in Slack.

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Google Chat introduces option to send multiple photos, videos

Google is close to retiring its Hangouts client on the web, turning its focus to Chat. The latest update to the Google Chat app brings the option to send multiple videos and photos at once. The feature comes to iOS and Android, giving you the choice of up to 20 photos and videos to send simultaneously. You could only do this one at a time before. Google hasn't mentioned when it's coming to the web app, but it works on both the standalone client and unified Gmail app on iOS.

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