Google is today rolling out Chrome 40 for iOS and with it introducing a redesigned UI, OS X Handoff support, and optimizations for iOS 8 and the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
Google is giving the entire app for both iPhone and iPad an overhaul based on its new “Material Design” design language introduced with its latest Android release. That includes “bold graphics, fluid motion, and tactile surfaces,” according to Google, as pictured in the iPhone screenshots above.
Here’s a look at the redesigned app on iPad:
The updated app also gains support for Apple’s Handoff feature, which allows users to pick up where they left off in one app in another on OS X. The Chrome iOS app now supports “handoff from Chrome to your default browser on OS X,” allowing users to jump from Chrome on iOS to Safari or any other default browser on a Mac (pictured below):
Version 40 of Chrome for iOS also brings optimizations for iOS 8 and the larger screens of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
The updated Chrome app for iPhone and iPad is rolling out to the App Store now.
What’s New in Version 40.0.2214.61
• New look with Material Design bringing bold graphics, fluid motion, and tactile surfaces
• iOS 8 optimizations and support for bigger phones
• Support handoff from Chrome to your default browser on OS X
• Stability improvements and bug fixes
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Great! Love the design.
What does Material Design have to do with iOS? If I wanted that I’d buy an Android phone.
It has to do w/ Google products so they’re using a coherent design across all platforms. Personally, I love it.
They should restrict their design to THEIR platform, and adhere to the design ethos of iOS when developing for that platform. This just shoves Material Design crap down the throats of iOS users, and fragments the UX on iOS.
100% with you Edison.
As an iOS user I don’t want a fragmented UI/UX experience. It’s confusing when 99% of your apps look and behave a certain way but then Google’s apps are different. If they want to push this pretentious ‘material design’ crap on their own platforms fine. But on iOS they should adhere to iOS guidelines.
rogifan, speaking of pretentious…wow.
Edison, do you think Apple should restrict their design to their platform as well and make iTunes and Safari for the PC look like Windows 8.1? I hate when Apple shoves their OSX crap down my throat (Actually, I would never use iTunes or Safari on my Parallels or Bootcamp versions of Windows, but you get my point).
I’m sorry, but are you trying to grasp at straws here? Apple pulled Safari from the Windows platform some time ago, and iTunes still contains GUI elements and UX workflows corresponding to Windows, so while it does have the general flavour of Apple, it’s still in-line with a Windows application.
At least Apple still tries to follow Microsoft GUI guidelines for developing software by incorporating the proper OS navigation elements menu structures. This crap from Google COMPLETELY shoves aside any semblance of iOS in favour of a non-iOS UX.
It’s obvious you don’t like Apple, especially referring to “OS X crap”, so why the hell are you on an Apple news / fan site? Don’t you have better things to do than antagonize Apple users?
You do understand with “OS X crap” I was directly quoting your previous post, right? I actually really like Apple. My Macbook Air is awesome. I don’t really care for iOS that much (I like customization), which is why I switched to a Note 3 after my 4S. I also have an iPad 3rd generation and a Surface Pro 2. I’m not a crazy brand loyalist like you who will say that everything that is made by Apple is a godsend and everything that isn’t Apple is horrible (until Apple applies it to their products).
Did you even look at the article? The entire thing has to do with OSX and iOS.
This is entirely to do with providing a consistent, cross-platform user experience for Google apps while reinforcing their unique branding at the same time – it makes perfect sense.
Apple have applied the same thinking themselves with previous iterations of Safari and iTunes for the PC.
Concerned it fragments the UI? Then, we have a perfectly good iOS 8 designed browser for you to play with fully integrated into the OS.
Wow, I know right? If only there was SOME way we could choose not to install it!
I’ve grown to really like this design, it’s also vey simple to navigate.
Weird. When I open ‘Chrome’ on my iPhone 6, I see the handoff as being Safari on my Mac. I opened a different webpage on my iPhone and then clicked the handoff, and it did open to the webpage I had open on Chrome.
Don’t expect anything from Google to work :D
I think that by design it opens it up on Mac in your default browser, which is apparently Safari.
Wow, that’s exactly what it was thank you.
Another freaking Google app for iOS attempting to Android-ify iOS, no thanks.
Well then, just don’t install it. But it’s good for the users to be able to choose. I’ll stay with Chrome.
Sorry, but if you stay with Chrome, then you obviously don’t value your privacy, and don’t seem to mind sacrificing a good chunk of performance to that hunk of crap.
Edison, you do understand that the reason Chrome will never be as fast as Safari on mobile devices is because of Apple restrictions, right? All Google is allowed to do is basically make a skin that goes over Safari. Apple would never allow Chrome to be fully functional on their device. Their walled garden can’t have something that is actually better than what they tell you to like, can it?
All I want from Chrome on iOS is the simple gesture of swipe to go fwd or back in browser history…not change tabs.
Lol. The funny thing is at this point more iOS devices probably feature material design than android because of Lollipop’s minuscule adoption.
Just… NO! Google put your crap apps to your crapdroid.
Google provides zero protection, and so NO THANKS.
Google puts in all this work and they Google STILL completely fails to put in any real privacy management enhancements. Chrome is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to personal privacy protections. Why? Because they make a boatload of money by selling your private data to the highest bidder.
No thanks, Google. You fail AGAIN.
I’m starting to notice that Material Design already looks extremely dated next to iOS 8 UI. Maybe Jony was onto something after all. There’s a huge difference between canned animations in a static UI and a true dynamic UI like iOS.
Agreed… Even looking at the screenshots of Chrome, MD looks worse and more primitive than Windows Modern (Metro) UI.
I don’t see what the big deal is about material design. Just the fact that Google had to call it that comes across as very pretensious. To me it’s basically ‘flat’ design with shadows everywhere and animations that most people don’t care about.
I’m not even an Android fan but making a mockery of “flat designs” is a bit hypocritical if your an Apple user – or would you prefer to hark back to the faux leather/notepad effects you where using on your iPhone 18 months ago and on your Mac 6 months back?
As for Google coming across as pretentious then trust me on this – there is no company on the planet more pretentious than Apple. Watch one of their product presentations where they talk about laser cut aluminum, retina screens and the like.
Spoken by one of the resident trolls who no one actually believes or trusts, and just tolerate…
Edison – do you REALLY think I care one jot what you or anyone else thinks about me on here? I point out hypocrisy because I don’t like it. I don’t attack Apple or get personal for no reason like Herb does, and as I have mentioned to you countless times before, my opinion is no more or less valid than yours. I know that. You don’t purely because of how arrogant you are and that manifests itself in your personal attacks. Your holier than thou, spoiled child attitude is the reason why true Apple fans get bad names. You bandy the word troll around to anyone who has a different opinion to yours, while blindly criticising all things non-Apple related – which makes you a hypocrite.
You’re a parody of Herb, you just don’t realise it.
Some nice additions to Chrome for iOS. I stopped using Chrome long ago, but I do think it will appeal to iOS Google lovers. However, I agree that they should stop pushing material design so hard on iOS as it disrupts the experience of using it. I like the way Apple designed iOS. If I wanted material design (which is pretty nice admittedly) I’d go get an android phone.
Is it still just a wrapper around Safari?
Yeah, if Apple doesn’t loosen up their restrictions on browsers it will always be.
Unfortunately this version of Chrome still uses UIWebView instead the new WKWebView (iOS 8), which offers a better experience and performance.
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