{"id":23822,"date":"2025-08-26T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23822\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:33:14","slug":"how-to-go-back-to-old-phone-app-familiar-ui-on-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23822\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Go Back To Old Phone App, Familiar UI On Android Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently unveiled an update on Android devices for the Phone app, featuring redesigns from Material 3 Expressive, a revamped user interface, and new gestures. Among the\u00a0redesigned elements were larger buttons for ending calls, accessing the keypad, muting, and enabling speaker options.<\/p>\n<p>Tweaks were also made to contacts and call history, with horizontal lines now distinguishing each contact and recently dialled numbers.\u00a0Additionally, similar to iOS, there is a sliding option to accept or reject an incoming call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, many Android users were dissatisfied with this abrupt change in UI. Users criticised the update, saying it can be challenging for those who\u2019re not well-versed with technology, such as parents, and some even pointed out that it hampers their muscle memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For some users, the much larger red Call End button was a blemish, while others found\u00a0buttons \u201cblocky, oversized, and ugly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good news, however, is that you can\u00a0revert to the previous user interface.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google recently unveiled an update on Android devices for the Phone app, featuring redesigns from Material 3 Expressive,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[16154,16153,20096,16152,18,20095,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-23822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android-contacts-app-update","9":"tag-android-phone-app-update","10":"tag-android-phones","11":"tag-android-ui-update","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-google-android","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}