Google AI Mode Redesigns Mobile Interface, Expands Restaurant Booking to 8 Countries

What Happened

Google on April 10, 2026 announced two simultaneous updates to AI Mode, its AI-integrated search interface: a visual redesign of the mobile prompt box and an international expansion of its agentic restaurant reservation capability. The changes were reported by 9to5Google based on Google’s official announcement. The restaurant booking feature, which had been restricted to users in the United States since its initial launch, is now available in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Why It Matters

The dual announcement reflects Google’s push to embed task-completion capabilities into Search rather than limiting AI Mode to information retrieval. By enabling direct restaurant reservations through Search, Google is competing with dedicated booking services such as OpenTable, TheFork, and Resy, which have established operations in several of the newly added markets.

The timing of the UI update is notable: Google applied a similar bottom sheet prompt redesign to the Gemini app on April 7, 2026 — three days earlier — pointing to a deliberate effort to unify the visual experience across its AI products. The decision to ship the dining feature to the stable channel without a Google Labs opt-in marks a departure from Google’s prior practice of gating experimental agentic features behind enrollment programs.

Technical Details

On mobile — both Android and iOS — AI Mode’s prompt interface is shifting from a pop-up overlay (which previously matched the web interface) to a bottom sheet layout. The redesigned sheet places Gallery and Camera buttons prominently at the top, followed by a “Tools” section currently containing one entry: “Create images.” A model selector labeled “Gemini 3 models” appears at the bottom, offering Auto and Pro options.

The agentic dining capability processes unstructured natural language queries and searches across multiple reservation platforms and restaurant websites using local partnerships in each supported country. Google provided two example queries in its announcement to illustrate the system’s capabilities: “Find a table for two at a dog-friendly Italian restaurant in Shoreditch for Saturday at 7 p.m.” and “Find me a sushi restaurant nearby that has a table for four that also serves vegan tempura.” These examples demonstrate the feature handling queries that combine geographic specificity, dietary constraints, party size, and informal preference signals simultaneously.

Google has not disclosed which specific reservation platforms are integrated in each of the eight new markets, nor whether the local partnership agreements differ by country.

Who’s Affected

Users in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom can now initiate restaurant reservations through Google Search via AI Mode without enrolling in a Labs program or using a separate booking application. The feature is accessible through the existing AI Mode interface, with the mobile UI redesign still rolling out to the full stable user base as of April 10.

Third-party reservation platforms operating in the newly supported markets are incorporated into AI Mode’s results as back-end data sources. Google has not publicly addressed how booking traffic attribution or fee structures are handled within these partnerships.

What’s Next

Google has not announced a timeline for completing the stable channel rollout of the mobile UI redesign on Android and iOS. The “Create images” entry remains the only tool listed in the mobile Tools section, with no announcements made regarding additional tool integrations. Google did not indicate in the April 10 announcement whether further geographic expansion of the restaurant booking feature is planned beyond the eight newly added markets.