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 via the Android Open Supply Mission, however on the time, it wasn’t but out there on Pixel telephones and tablets — or different main Android units. Google introduced right now that it’s lastly coming to Pixels alongside a sequence of Pixel function drops.
One main new function in Android 15 is the flexibility to make a “personal area” for apps you may need to hold hidden from different individuals who get ahold of your telephone. (Google offers the examples of social, relationship, or banking apps.) Apps you set within the personal area gained’t present up in your current apps, notifications, or settings, in line with Google. To entry the area, you’ll have to supply extra authentication, and you may even “cover the existence of personal area from view in your telephone,” 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 facet by facet, you possibly can arrange an app pairing and entry that pairing from one icon.
Many units working Android — not simply Android 15 — may also be getting Theft Detection Lock, which lets your telephone mechanically lock itself if it detects (with the assistance of AI) that it has been stolen. Google can be including a function referred to as Distant Lock that permits you to lock your telephone utilizing one other Android telephone, your telephone quantity, and a “easy safety verify.” The corporate says that “most” units on Android 10 and newer will get these options, and a few folks have already got them.
Google can be beginning to roll out a brand new Pixel function drop for October that features Evening Sight for Instagram for taking higher low-light images and extra controls for Audio Magic Eraser. In “the following few weeks,” Google can be including a function that permits you to transfer media from a Pixel Pill to a Pixel telephone by holding the units subsequent to one another.
