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TL;DR
- It appears that Google is testing a new Gemini Live interface that turns the Assistant into an interactive pill-shaped bar.
- The updated UI reportedly responds to taps and can even “wave back” at users during conversations.
- The new Gemini Live experience appears to be a limited test rollout.
Google is constantly playing with Gemini’s UI in an effort to make it more responsive. A major Gemini UI redesign debuted earlier this month, and now, it looks like Google is giving Gemini Live a weird new trick, too.
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As spotted by @testingindex on X, it appears that Google is bringing a new interactive bar UI to Gemini Live. This essentially turns Gemini Live into a pill-shaped bar that supposedly reacts to your taps and waves back at you. see for yourself:
Google is quietly releasing an updated Gemini experience for its mobile apps ahead of Google I/O.
Its updated UI for Gemini Live features an interactive “bar” or a dynamic island that reacts to your taps and can wave back.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 14 May 2026
It doesn’t look like this new Gemini Live experience is being released widely yet. We checked the Gemini app across different Google accounts on both Android and iOS and didn’t see the new Bar UI. The tipster also noted that he only got the new UI on one in 10 accounts, so it seems like Google is rolling it out slowly or just testing it right now.
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