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TL;DR
- Google is exploring including again the Google Pay branding in sure areas throughout the Google Pockets app. These adjustments aren’t stay, however we managed to activate them for a fast look.
- Google can also be exploring a brand new divider earlier than the Every little thing Else possibility when including new gadgets to Google Pockets, giving the menu some visible distinction.
It’s honest to say that Google Pockets has had a few identification crises. Google lastly settled on the Google Pockets identification in 2024 for the US, selecting to combine most of Google Pay‘s performance into Google Pockets (though the Google Pay app continues to exist in some international markets). Nonetheless, it appears that evidently Google has not fully moved on, as we proceed to identify new clues indicating that the “Google Pay” branding may return within the Google Pockets app.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s potential that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
Google Pockets v24.44.695355101 comes with hints that point out Google nonetheless needs to maintain a few of the Google Pay branding within the app, regardless of the Pay branding being deprecated in favor of the Pockets branding in key areas just like the USA.
Google has been engaged on a brand new UI, codenamed “Swan Lake,” particularly for the Google Pay branding, which is odd provided that it’s not related within the Pockets app. We managed to activate the brand new UI, and you’ll see it in comparison with the present UI within the screenshots beneath:
As you may see, the UI is primarily the identical, however the “Google Pay” branding makes a return. The Add to Pockets button turns into Add, and we see the Google Pay branding within the header too. Within the account switcher menu, we see Google Pay settings as an alternative of Pockets settings. The performance stays unchanged, so the change is barely within the branding.
The strings don’t talk about Google’s intention behind this check, so now we have to invest. It might be that Google doesn’t need customers to overlook the Google Pay branding, so it’s making it distinguished throughout the Google Pockets app. It may be that Google might be bringing extra erstwhile Google Pay options like peer-to-peer funds to Google Pockets, and the branding could be proper at house in such a case. It may even be that Google remains to be confused about what to name its cost and pockets answer, and it’s exploring one other rebranding (we’ve misplaced depend of what number of occasions Google has gone between Pay and Pockets at this stage).
Both means, we’ll preserve an eye fixed out for extra clues to assist us piece collectively this puzzle. This variation isn’t at present stay within the Google Pockets app and will or could not roll out to customers sooner or later.
Talking of UI adjustments, this model of the Google Pockets app additionally introduces a minor one. The Every little thing Else possibility when including a brand new card to Google Pockets is now separated by a divider from the remainder of the choices.
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This appears higher and provides a component of visible distinction. It’s not a big change, however it separates doubtlessly actionable playing cards from images of miscellaneous gadgets. This variation is stay for customers on this model of the app.
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