{"id":46507,"date":"2025-07-07T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46507\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:26:10","slug":"googles-at-a-glance-weather-icons-are-getting-a-controversial-minimalist-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46507\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s At a Glance weather icons are getting a controversial minimalist makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"google pixel at a glance close up\"  alt=\"At a Glance on the Google Pixel 9 Pro.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/google-pixel-at-a-glance-close-up-scaled.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Maring \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 16 QPR1 beta users are noticing a change to the weather at a glance icon.<\/li>\n<li>The icon now appears flat and colorless.<\/li>\n<li>This change is happening in QPR1 beta only, not stable Android 16.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-features-3484159\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16<\/a> QPR1 beta user and noticed that At a Glance looks a little different lately, you\u2019re not alone. Google has rolled out an update to the weather icons that appears to have users divided.<\/p>\n<p>At a Glance, which appears at the top of the Pixel Launcher, can show you a variety of information, including the weather. For weather, you\u2019ll usually see a colorful icon representing the forecast and the temperature next to it. For example, if it\u2019s going to be a cloudy day, you\u2019ll see an icon that shows a yellow sun hiding behind some white clouds.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"weather at a glance\"  alt=\"weather at a glance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/weather-at-a-glance.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan McNeal \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>However, it looks like this could change in the future. Android 16 QPR1 beta users are beginning to notice that these icons have lost their color after a recent update. These icons now appear flat and colorless, as you can see in the screenshots below. This change is happening only in the QPR1 beta; the update has not yet been rolled out to the stable channel.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"weather at a glance update 2\"  alt=\"weather at a glance update 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/weather-at-a-glance-update-2.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"weather at a glance update\"  alt=\"weather at a glance update\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/weather-at-a-glance-update.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It appears the change to all white icons was spotted as early as about a month ago by Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pixel_phones\/comments\/1l5jh7p\/weather_at_a_glance_is_ugly_in_new_update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">samhot66<\/a>. While there are plenty of users who dislike the update, not everyone agrees. One commenter says, \u201cI actually prefer it without colors. Cleaner. The colored icons we had were pretty ugly.\u201d While another commenter says, \u201cI don\u2019t dislike it at all. But it\u2019s just far too small now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/at-a-glance-colorless-weather-icons-3574450\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Maring \/ Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR1 beta users are noticing a change to the weather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4600,2722,15882,611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android-16","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813127867053451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}