Overview

• Google TV for Android (v4.39) introduces Material 3 Expressive with a new Hot & New tab, autoplaying silent clips, and prominent watchlist and share controls.
• The updated phone-based Google TV remote is partially broken, as the long‑press on the select button no longer works, blocking access to some in‑app menus like YouTube.
• 9to5Google’s latest tracker shows the redesign live or rolling out across multiple apps, including Google TV, Keep, Phone by Google, Photos, Files, Clock, and more.
• Phone by Google adopts a major layout change that merges Favorites and Recents into a Home tab, gives the Keypad its own tab, and moves Contacts into a navigation drawer.
• The Phone app’s incoming call screen adds a swipe-to-answer or decline gesture that can be toggled in the Incoming call gesture setting.