the new icon does very much resemble the home button icon on Android. Which does naturally lead to the assumption that Google might be looking to harmonize the look of the home button on Android ...

Now, the default gesture navigation configuration is down to two buttons: the home “pill” icon and the back button, which appears when needed. However, according to some early Android Q code ...

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