Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel units, bringing them new privateness options, safety instruments, and enhancements for foldables and tablets. The working system first launched final month by the Android Open Source Project, however on the time, it wasn’t but obtainable on Pixel telephones and tablets — or different main Android units. Google introduced right this moment that it’s lastly coming to Pixels alongside a collection of Pixel characteristic drops.
One main new characteristic in Android 15 is the flexibility to make a “non-public area” for apps you would possibly need to hold hidden from different individuals who get ahold of your cellphone. (Google provides the examples of social, courting, or banking apps.) Apps you set within the non-public area gained’t present up in your current apps, notifications, or settings, in keeping with Google. To entry the area, you’ll have to supply further authentication, and you’ll even “conceal the existence of personal area from view in your cellphone,” Google says.
On foldables and tablets, Android 15 will let customers pin and unpin the taskbar to allow them to select to have considerably simpler entry to their apps. And when you’ve got sure apps that you simply often use aspect by aspect, you’ll be able to arrange an app pairing and entry that pairing from one icon.
Many units operating Android — not simply Android 15 — can even be getting Theft Detection Lock, which lets your cellphone routinely lock itself if it detects (with the assistance of AI) that it has been stolen. Google can also be including a characteristic referred to as Remote Lock that permits you to lock your cellphone utilizing one other Android cellphone, your cellphone quantity, and a “easy safety verify.” The firm says that “most” units on Android 10 and newer will get these options, and a few folks have already got them.
Google can also be beginning to roll out a brand new Pixel characteristic drop for October that features Night Sight for Instagram for taking higher low-light photographs and extra controls for Audio Magic Eraser. In “the subsequent few weeks,” Google can also be including a characteristic that permits you to transfer media from a Pixel Tablet to a Pixel cellphone by holding the units subsequent to one another.
