Google Messages is testing a new animation in its latest beta (v20250115_03_RC00) that makes sent and received messages expand from a small bubble/pill shape to fill their space in the chat The ...

Here’s how that used to look: With a little under-the-hood fiddling, though, we were able to get an early look at a slightly different animation for how new messages joined the chat, expanding ...

The new animation, first seen in the January beta ... both sent and received, pop-up in your chat window. We're referring to the minor tweak that first made its way to Google Messages via the ...