Google’s Camera app is getting a minor facelift

We’re coming up on the legit unveiling of the Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro subsequent month, and Google is getting its Camera app ready for the event. Per a epic on the reputable Google Data Telegram channel, Google Camera v9.0 is on the horizon, and it seems attach to raise a bunch of little tweaks to the digicam UI, along side reorganized settings and a brand fresh app icon.

In step with the Telegram put up, model 9.0.115.561695573.37 of Google Camera will introduce a series of little-but-helpful changes. The supreme organizational tweak is a replace to the strip of digicam functions shown beneath the shutter button: there is truly a continual toggle within the viewfinder for switching between photograph and video modes, and the strip will supreme point out the suitable functions for the mode you’re taking pictures in.

There are a pair of smaller changes, too. You might well perchance now swipe up within the viewfinder to starting up out the Camera app’s settings, and the positions of buttons to starting up out the digicam roll and alter between front- and rear-going by cameras were swapped. Finally, the Camera app’s icon is getting a minor update that makes it a bit more legible, with a higher digicam silhouette proportional to the total icon’s dimension.

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We observed this fresh UI in action earlier this month, but this is the first time we’ve viewed the fresh Camera icon — or the update’s model number. It hasn’t been officially confirmed that this fresh model of the Google Camera app will open on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, but the timing traces up neatly: the fresh phones will open at a Google event in Modern York on October 4, compatible weeks from at this time. Wherever the fresh UI makes its debut, we quiz to seem the refreshed Camera app on most Pixel devices within the near future.