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TL;DR
- Now we have extra particulars on Google’s efforts to revamp the Do Not Disturb mode in subsequent 12 months’s Android 16 replace.
- Within the newest Android beta, we’ve found that the in-development function is not known as Precedence Modes however as a substitute simply Modes.
- As well as, we’ve found that Android will show the person icon for any Modes you allow on the standing bar, lock display screen, and AOD.
Growth on the subsequent main launch of Android, ie. Android 16, is effectively underway, however since we’re greater than half a 12 months away from its steady launch, loads of its new options aren’t prepared but. Nonetheless, we will get a glimpse at a few of Android 16’s new options by poking round within the Android beta releases that Google pushes out. Following the discharge of one more new Android beta earlier as we speak, we managed to uncover much more particulars on one of many largest new options in Android 16: Modes.
Modes is the brand new identify of the Precedence Modes function that we totally documented earlier this month. This upcoming function is mainly a supercharged model of Android’s Do Not Disturb mode. The explanation the Do Not Disturb mode must be overhauled is that it’s fairly restricted proper now. You’ll be able to both activate it manually or set it to activate between sure occasions or throughout sure calendar occasions from a particular calendar. If you wish to set a number of schedules based mostly on different occasions or calendars, although, then you must modify the mode each single time. You’ll be able to’t simply create one other copy of Do Not Disturb mode with its personal settings. That’s what the brand new Modes function in Android 16 will resolve, fortunately.
In Android 16, you’ll have the ability to create many alternative modes, every with their very own identify, icon, activation set off, show settings, and notification settings. You’ll be able to manually toggle modes from both the Settings app or from a brand new Fast Settings tile that Google is engaged on. Our earlier report on Android 16’s new Modes function, which once more was once known as Precedence Modes, not solely confirmed off the UI for creating new modes but additionally how you can toggle them, in case you’re .
With the discharge of Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 earlier as we speak, we seen that not solely did Google rebrand Precedence Modes to only Modes as we talked about earlier nevertheless it additionally up to date the OS to point out an icon within the standing bar, lock display screen, and AOD that corresponds to the present mode that’s enabled. This may make it simpler to inform at a look what mode is at present enabled.
In Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3, Google additionally barely tweaked the UI for the dialog that seems if you faucet the Fast Settings tile. Modes at the moment are displayed in a single-column, vertically scrolling record as a substitute of a dual-column record. I personally desire the outdated dual-column record because it makes higher use of obtainable house, however maybe Google switched to a single-column record to depart house for extra data to be added, equivalent to a brief description for every mode.
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One other small tweak is that the Fast Settings tile itself now shows the icon of the primary mode that you just allow. It additionally reveals the identify of the primary mode however switches to saying the variety of modes energetic if a couple of is enabled. Talking of which, in the event you ever have a couple of mode enabled, then solely the primary one’s icon will seem on the standing bar, lock display screen, and AOD.
In its present state, the Modes function permits you to select from over 40 distinctive icons, however that quantity might develop earlier than Android 16’s launch. I don’t know if Google plans to allow you to use your personal icon, however I’m beginning to doubt it is going to for stability causes. Even in the event you can’t decide your personal icon, the 40 current ones are fairly broad and distinct from each other, so that you shouldn’t have any points discovering the correct icon on your customized mode.
