{"slug": "google-redesigns-icons-for-pixel-camera-calculator-clock-recorder-weather-apps", "title": "Google redesigns icons for Pixel Camera, Calculator, Clock, Recorder, & Weather apps", "summary": "Google has redesigned the icons for Pixel Camera, Calculator, Clock, Recorder, and Weather apps alongside the Pixel 11 launch, with the Pixel Camera icon now featuring a Pixel blue gradient reflecting the role of ML and AI in the camera experience. The updates align with Google's latest design language, including Material 3 Expressive for the Clock icon and simplified, background-free designs for Weather, Recorder, and Calculator.", "body_md": "With the [launch of the Pixel 11](https://9to5google.com/2026/08/12/made-by-google-2026-announcements/), Google has updated a handful of Pixel app icons to better align with its latest design language.\n\nThe biggest update is to **Pixel Camera**, which still mostly takes after a DSLR. The body is a rectangle with corner flash and centered viewfinder. Besides the updated shape, there’s a new color palette in Pixel blue. The gradient reflects how ML and AI have long been part of the Pixel Camera experience. This update coincides with a [big update](https://9to5google.com/?p=725601) to the actual in-app viewfinder.\n\nThe primary change to **Pixel Weather** is going from a blue background, which fittingly represented the sky, to a plain one. Besides the icon, we haven’t noticed any major changes to the app itself.\n\nSimilar to Weather, **Pixel Recorder** drops the background color for a red waveform that is less detailed than before and a bit more stylized.\n\n**Google Calculator** also drops its background to place the minus, multiplication, plus, and equals symbols in green (dark and light) circles.\n\nThe last change is to the Google Clock app, with Material 3 Expressive fully leveraged to illustrate the app’s name. It takes after a design first introduced on Wear OS.\n\nOverall, these new icons make for nice modernizations that match the likes of Pixel Journal and Screenshots. 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