Screen Effects add some big screen-filling animations to your Google Messages chats. So far, Screen Effects have been activated by using specific text trigger phrases. Messages now appears to ...

People using Google Messages for a long time must have triggered one of the app’s Screen Effects – the full-screen animations that appear while entering specific phrases into the chat.

Google's Pixel Weather app has a hidden play/pause button for its background animations. Tapping the upper portion of the screen pauses the animation and reveals a play button. Tapping again (or ...