The Google Phone app is the latest in a series of apps to get Android's new Material 3 Expressive design language. That means bigger buttons, customizable fonts, louder accent themes, and also in the case of the Phone app, a bit of a fundamental design change.

For as long as I can remember, the Google Phone app’s default gesture for answering calls has been a vertical swipe, the exact opposite to the iPhone’s horizontal slide-to-answer gesture. I really liked it. It was solid, dependable, and very resistant to mis-swipes and butt-answers.

But with this new update, Google has changed the default gesture to be more similar to what Apple has on the iPhone, although not exactly the same. There’s a new horizontal swipe now, where you swipe left to decline a call and you swipe right to answer

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