Eight things that are great about Android 12

We can’t all enjoy it yet, but for the lucky ones who can (read: people with a Pixel 3 and higher): Android 12 has many fine options. To make you feel good, we tip eight.

1. The color match

Where Android updates used to be called sweets, this one should just be called Material You. Google is fully committed to personalization and does so under that heading. One of the nice things about this is that the phone thinks along with you. If you change your wallpaper to something with a lot of pink, you probably don’t want the rest to remain coral or fire red. Material You looks at your wallpaper and matches the colors on notifications, widgets and throughout Android 12. A delight to the eye.

2. Be wiser

Secretly filming someone is becoming increasingly difficult, because the phone user sees with a light that video is being recorded with the camera or sound with the microphone. It is one of the possibilities that shows that Google wants to bet higher on privacy: something for which it has been under fire for quite some time. It is also possible to block apps from accessing your camera or microphone at all by going to the Quick Settings.

3. Beautiful for the eyes

It is common knowledge that the light from your smartphone in your face is not the best for bedtime. There are many night modes available, but Android 12 builds in additional dimmed backlighting, allowing for better nighttime scrolling without a box of light hitting your face. It is also possible to adjust the text in color, because gray is better if you want to read.

4. Wild of the widgets

Speaking of widgets, widgets are no longer as rigid as they used to be. You can customize them better than ever. This way you can arrange your home screen even more the way you want it. The widgets are much more dynamic, which makes it easier to manipulate them according to your taste. Widgets are useful, for example, to show the current weather or forecast, or to display a kind of mini-Gmail that allows you to quickly check your inbox.

5. Remote Gadgets

Gadgets like your wireless earbuds or headphones often want to know your location in order to connect to your phone. But is that really necessary? Android 12 does not think so, or at least wants to give you the opportunity to express that you do not want that. Adjustments have been made to the Bluetooth settings so that the gadgets that you allow to communicate with your phone via Bluetooth can no longer access your location.

6. Your location really private

Many people do not trust their smartphone completely and are afraid that there are still a lot of apps that use the location of the phone without permission. Google lets you choose per app in Android 12 which can know your specific location and which have to do with a location that is only nearby. Of course you always have the choice to completely turn off your location per app, but luckily that was already possible.

7. Forgotten Apps

Forgotten apps, everyone has them. They’re on your phone, but actually they might as well get them off. Don’t worry, Android 12 doesn’t just throw away apps you haven’t used in a long time. It does however delete the permissions and cached files belonging to that app. Of course only after being unused for a while.

8. What is the Wi-Fi?

You know that: if you are having a party, you must first send everyone your WiFi code because no one wants to use up their data. No problem, of course, but you no longer have to write down your WiFi password somewhere in an unsafe place or crawl into your meter box to your modem. Android 12 can do Nearby Share, which will share your Wi-Fi settings to someone else in one go. That also saves entering difficult codes and thinking about how that military alphabet works.

There will undoubtedly be many more features coming to Android 12, but these are our favorites.

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