We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Android users haven’t had a major change to the status bar in a number of years. With exception to ...

Google is testing new icons for various status bar elements like WiFi, mobile data, airplane mode, and battery level. We previously spotted the new designs for the WiFi, mobile data, and airplane mode ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Android 15 is getting closer, and we are still discovering new information about this next iteration of Android. As discovered by noted Android engineer Mishaal Rahmen, a part of Android that has been ...

Google updated the Android Easter egg in Android 16 to use the new progress-centric notification style, but even in QPR1, notifications from the Easter egg weren’t shown as Live Updates. This is ...

Google has restored the status bar vibrate mode icon to Android 12 QPR3 Beta with a new settings menu toggle. In all previous versions of Android, you’ll get status bar icons when in vibrate or silent ...

In addition to Dynamic Color for some of the always-on display (AOD) clocks, Android 16 Beta 4 tweaks the time in the status bar. The font has changed, with most numbers — 1 and 2 — wider than before.

We’ve stumbled upon an app that allows you to hide your status bar icons, even on Pixel smartphones. That option is not available on Google’s Pixel smartphones at all… and no, you don’t need root in ...

I don’t want to embarrass you, but the top of your phone’s screen is, like, totally a waste of space. For years now, y’see, Android device-makers have been designing devices with a circular cutout ...

Android 15 introduced a soft requirement for apps to use edge-to-edge display, but allowed developers to opt out. Android 16 removes this opt-out, mandating full-screen display for apps targeting the ...

The time until your next turn and ETA are showing up in the status bar on Android 16 beta 2.1 The time until your next turn and ETA are showing up in the status bar on Android 16 beta 2.1 is a news ...