Android 15 isn't accessible on all telephones but – though it is going to be accessible on Pixel telephones very quickly – however we're already listening to about Android 16 and, particularly, a giant change it may carry to notifications and fast settings screens.
Mishaal Rahman, writing for Android Authority, dug into the newest Android 15 QPR beta and managed to allow a brand new model of those screens, which they are saying can be rolled out as a part of Android 16.
If you happen to at present personal a Pixel handset, swiping down from the highest of the display screen will reveal all of your notifications together with 4 fast settings tiles. This dropdown menu additionally absolutely covers all apps working beneath it.
If you wish to entry the remainder of the Fast Settings tiles, you'll have to swipe down a second time.
However with this new model that Rahman discovered, swiping down with one finger brings up the notification panel once more, however this time it doesn't present fast settings and the drop-down menu solely covers the highest half of your telephone's display screen, so you continue to can see what app you might be working beneath.
As a substitute, to entry the fast settings panel, swipe with two fingers, then swipe left or proper to entry extra fast settings tiles.
Hold wanting
You possibly can see what all of it appears to be like like within the video above. Nonetheless, understand that that is an unfinished model of the characteristic that doesn’t deal with gentle mode effectively, for instance, as which means that the white textual content is not seen. So if this alteration is launched, it would doubtless be in a extra refined kind.
In any case, the gist is that accessing Fast Settings not requires two swipes, however somewhat a two-finger swipe. Whether or not that is higher or worse is considerably subjective, however it may show fairly controversial, with Rahman, for instance, describing the change as “annoying”.
A pixel particular change
It additionally stays to be seen whether or not this alteration can be carried out in any respect, as a result of whereas Google is clearly experimenting with it, that doesn't imply the corporate will resolve to take action.
If that's the case, the most probably launch date is Android 16, which isn't anticipated to be prepared for an additional yr or so, though it's all the time doable the change comes as a part of a smaller software program replace within the meantime.
Oh, and for those who don't have a Pixel telephone, you in all probability gained't get this alteration anyway, as most different producers make their very own changes to the notification and fast settings screens anyway.