- Personal Safety is rolling out an update that implements a new color scheme.
- While the app still doesn’t use your system palette, it does improve readability.
- Google has managed to mess up clock rendering, though, with the time fitting poorly on the screen.
Developers like Google are constantly trying out new looks for their apps, and not everyone’s going to be a fan of every change. But even if we prefer one layout over another, or thought an old workflow was superior, we generally expect these changes to still function properly — it’s one thing to go in a new direction we’re not sold on yet; it’s quite another to break something.
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That’s just what we saw happening with Google’s Clock app recently, and while it still told the time just fine, updates to how the app rendered its font had those numerals jumping all over the place, or not even fitting properly on the screen. Google spoke up to reassure users that it knew what was wrong and was working on a fix, but now we’ve spotted another clock-related issue in another Google app redesign.
