Mishaal's Android News Feed

Android 15 QPR2 could fix this lock screen widget oversight When Google reintroduced lock screen widgets in the last quarterly release of Android 15, they weren’t resizable. But that could change soon. More details + first look at this change can be found in this article.

🔋Bluetooth settings on Android will soon show your device's battery level using circles Google is working on a minor change to the Bluetooth device details page to make it more polished. A screenshot of the new UI change can be found in this article.

A new version of the Quick Share app for Windows is rolling out that adds an option to change your visibility settings from the tray icon. Just right click --> hover over Visibility to change it between No one, Your devices, Contacts, and Everyone. This is available in version v1.0.2034.4 of the app.

🛑Android is adding some extra protection against stalkers tracking you with tags Android will now let you temporarily pause location updates and pinpoint the location of unknown tracker tags More details on these privacy features can be found in this article on Android Authority.

Google is rolling out the Quick Share QR code feature it announced last week! This feature lets you show a QR code on your device that others can scan to immediately connect and receive your file(s). This is helpful for when you're having issues connecting normally via Quick Share or when you don't want to change your visibility settings.

Android 16 DP1: Android's privacy dashboard now lets you see the past 7 days worth of permissions access data, as opposed to the current default 24 hours. Fun fact: this was originally supposed to land in Android 13. Google even announced this at I/O 2022…

Google is rolling out the Identity Check feature it announced last week. When Identity Check is enabled, biometric authentication will be required for sensitive actions like: - Accessing saved passkeys and app passwords - Changing the PIN, pattern, or password, and turning off Find My Device ...whenever your phone is in an untrusted location. This makes it harder for someone to compromise your Google Account. Turning off the feature requires either your biometrics or your Google Account and can only be done when your phone has Internet access. Identity Check works on Android 15 and later and is available through a beta version of Google Play Services. Thanks to Matthew Rawling on my Telegram group for the screenshots!

❌The One UI 7 update brings a lot of new features ... but it's also taking one away: the lock screen widget carousel. In previous versions of One UI, you were able to tap on the lock screen clock to show a carousel of full-size widgets. Details can be found in this article.

📋One UI 7 enhances Routines so you can automate more things on your Samsung phone 32 new actions have been added in One UI 7, letting you create even more automations through "if, then" statements. Here's all the new actions in Samsung Routines.

📱App archiving in One UI 7 helps you free up space on your Samsung phone One UI 7 adds support for Android 15’s new app archiving feature, which definitely wasn't a given since some other Android 15-based OSes don't support it. More details on this feature can be found in this article.

🎧One UI 7 brings one of Z Fold 6's best audio features to more Samsung phones Samsung's "loudness normalization" feature is now available for the Galaxy S24 series in the first One UI 7 beta. Here's what it does.

💻Here's how One UI 7 is making your phone a more powerful Galaxy Book companion One UI 7 enhances Camera Sharing to let you use your Galaxy phone as a webcam for your Galaxy Book, plus it's adding Storage Share to let you access your phone's files.