Android 12: Crazy features you should know about

Navtechy
2 min readMay 21, 2021

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Improved Notification shade: Material You bring opaque background and rounded corners to notifications. Also, each notification has a snooze button with 15 min, 30 min, 2 hrs.

Easy Wifi Sharing: Android 12 brings easy wi-fi sharing by QR Code. The host has to only scan the QR code to connect to your network.

One-handed mode: The feature is helpful if you have to use the phone in one hand. This brings all the display’s content in one bottom corner or says in half of the screen.

Apps updates on Google Play Store

Redesigned widgets: The widgets designed are revamp with ‘Material You’ UI brings great look and feel to user.

App Hibernation: App hibernation is for unused apps which are not used for a long time and residing on your phone. This feature will auto deletes all the temporary data and clear the cache of the app.

Splash Screens: The splash screen will be universal for all the apps on the Android 12 device. Whether the developer builds it or not, each app will now open with a splash screen and app icon.

Scrolling Screenshots: The feature is not yet confirmed but rumoured to come in next beta build of ‘Snow Cone’

Media Player Revamp: The media player in the notification shade has a new UI. The device play button has changed into an icon, with one tap now you can switch to playback devices.

Clipboard access alerts: Whenever you copied anything in clipboard you will get pop-up alert ‘copied to clipboard’ in the bottom of screen.

Game Dashboard: Android 12 brings a new Game dashboard from where you can directly open the game and control the settings to have a good experience.

Face-based auto-rotation: Screen rotation and auto-rotation are what we use. Android 12 auto-detects your face orientation and rotates the screen for you.

Originally published at https://navtechy.com on May 21, 2021.

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