The Google app on iOS seems to have gotten a brand new Easter egg: a slightly entertaining little pinball app hidden away within the “Tabs” menu. The recreation seems to have been added just a few weeks in the past, as noticed by several YouTube videos and a Reddit post in the midst of June.

Opening the pinball recreation is easy: change over to the Tabs, uh, tab in Google’s iOS app, filter any open tabs, after which watch for the colourful shapes to begin creeping up from the underside of the display. Swipe up on these shapes, and also you’ll launch a surprisingly full-featured pinball recreation straight within the app.

Gameplay really works like a mixture of pinball and Brick Breaker, with every stage spawning quite a lot of colourful shapes that shrink and finally vanish with every hit. Each stage provides new bumper variations and extra shapes to the combo, and there are even power-ups: a coronary heart provides an additional life, a blue star splits the pinball into two, and a yellow star makes the ball bigger and simpler to hit. It additionally works offline, within the occasion that you simply’re caught on a aircraft or subway and one way or the other handle to solely have the Google app in your cellphone for internet-less leisure.

Is there an actual function to the pinball Easter egg? Not actually. (The identical may very well be stated of standard pinball, I suppose.) But the existential nature of pinball is past the scope of this weblog publish — moreover, I would like to return and attempt to beat my excessive rating.