Google, in their I/O 2021 event on Tuesday, announced major changes in their upcoming Android 12 update. The update will have additional privacy features and departure from the aesthetics sported in the previous versions. 

“Android 12 includes the biggest design change in Android’s history. We rethought the entire experience, from the colors to the shapes, light and motion. The result is that Android 12 is more expressive, dynamic and personal than ever before”, said the tech giant in their official statement. 

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The Android 12 has not been released yet however it is available in form of a developer preview (now on to its third version).

The update will allow users to personalize the custom colour palette of their phone and change the widget designs. How it works is when the user picks a wallpaper the system automatically reads those colours and applies them across the operating system(OS). In other words, the wallpaper determines the colours allocated to the lock scene, the volume controls, new widgets, the notification shade and much more. 

The notification shade’s layout is going to feature bigger icons with more spaced out notifications. Google also announced that the Quick Setting space with the update will include Google Pay and the Home Controls. 

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The Android devices will not be more responsive and faster with better power efficiency, claimed Google. For the privacy update, there will be a new Privacy Dashboard that will offer a single view into the permission settings as well as the list of which app has access to what data. This will also allow users to easily revoke the app permissions. 

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This update is primarily aimed at increasing the control users have over the information and data they are providing to applications. Another feature of the update will allow users to share the approximate location instead of their precise current location.