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A new look that moves

Buttons like an iPhone's that sink and spring back, tabs and the side rail that slide, brighter colours and rounder panels - and clans with codes drawn for you and badges in six shapes.

  • Buttons like an iPhone's: capsules lit from above, bold white labels and a soft glow of their colour. Every button sinks a little as you press it and springs back.
  • Things slide instead of switching: the pill under the showing tab glides to the next one, the light on the side rail moves from page to page, switches spring across, and pages rise into place as they open.
  • Fields answer your typing: a ring of light round the one you're in, a little brighter with every key.
  • Brighter colours: the ground is a deeper, more colourful navy instead of near-black, the backdrop is lit in two colours, its edges no longer sink to black, and panels have rounder corners.
  • Three new scenes behind the pages: Cyberpunk - neon circuit veins round the edges with sparks racing along them, a night city and a grid floor - Nether and Deep sea. Aurora turns green and violet under the stars, with curtains of light rising off its ribbons and veins of light round the edges. Horizon now has birds, shooting stars and turning sun rays, Graveyard a crypt, a fence, lanterns, wisps and bats. A scene puts on its own colours, the Launch button too, and leaving it gives yours back.
  • Counts sit on the same line as their words in every row of tabs - All 31, Sounds 2.
  • Clans: your clan's code is drawn for you - five capitals and digits, like K7QX2 - so nobody can take every short tag. Names are 1 to 10 characters, one of a kind however they're written, and never a slur in any language.
  • Clan badges in six shapes - shield, round, hexagon, diamond, banner and seal - lit in your clan's colour. The clan's owner can change the shape and the colour any time with Edit badge.
  • The cape editor's tools are drawn as what they are - a pencil, an eraser, a bucket, an eyedropper - under a pill that slides to the one you pick, and brush sizes are dots.
  • Skins shows your skin straight away and checks with Minecraft after, instead of making you wait.
  • If your daily streak runs out, the totem pops as you open the Store - and says how long the streak was.
  • Catalyst keeps what it downloads under 7 GB, clearing what was used longest ago first. Your worlds, screenshots, clips and settings are never touched.