Android 15 prepares revamped status bar with new icons and haptics

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-new-status-bar-3430578/

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27 Comments

Xylight@lemdro.id · 34 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Those are not material icons, please don't google

hopefully these are just a test or something

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

It was good while it lasted. Nearly 10 years. ⚰️

prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com · 31 pts · 2y

Wow. That battery looks truly terrible.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Fuck.

SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why? It's pointless but not detrimental imo.

RGB3x3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

because it's pointless and annoying on top of all the other annoying bull crap Google has been pulling over the last 5 years.

blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

These look a lot like iOS status icons, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure

tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Yep, specially the battery icon.

gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Looks a bit shit

I'd be happy if they brought back the wifi toggle instead of making me go into a settings screen

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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bitwolf@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The new Bluetooth toggle does it right imo

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y

Even Motorola thought that was dumb because I have separate toggles on my Android 13 Motorola phone, with the caveat that clicking turning off data gives me an "are you sure" prompt. I just bypass this with the airplane mode button, which is still thankfully 1 click.

limerod@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y

It's a thing on most android smartphones. But, I searched and apparently you can bring that behaviour back on pixel smartphones too. Here's a YouTube video if you are on android 12/13. It may even work on android 14 https://youtu.be/KnhlC4_LbyU?si=zZPcXiQSlUbSHp8W

tb_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

The WiFi toggle is still there in quick settings (tap on the round WiFi icon, rather than the text)

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 2y

Ew... That is the ugliest battery icon I've ever seen. Can I just keep it the way it is now, please?

SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y

So change for the sake of change. The new icons are fine, and I even slightly like the revamp to the battery icon, but this is still just pointless.

Also, my near stock Android 13 phone already gives me haptic feedback when I long press the quick toggles, so this is not even a change.

catloaf@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They're finally reverting the separation of battery icon and numeric percentage? Sweet! I never liked the current implementation.

But other than that, it really doesn't look significantly different.

limerod@reddthat.com · -1 pts · 2y

This has been a thing since ages on most OEM devices. AOSP is so much behind. 7 years of updates are really necessary for pixels.

UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

This is a belated April Fool's joke, right? This looks horrendous. Like the ugly child of iOS and Samsung icons.

nexusband@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I wish Google would use the haptics engine more. It's been incredibly capable since the Pixel 6...

dingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I actually hate haptics on phones unless it's for a notification or phone call. It's always the first thing I turn off when I get a new phone. Vibrating on button presses is obnoxious to me.

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Funny, I think it's used a ton and it's so ubiquitous in some situations that I forget it's even there, but immediately notice it's absence.

limerod@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y

The changed icons are already present on most 3rd party OEM roms. Outside of AOSP based roms hardly noteworthy. The new chip based charging indicator is a bit difficult to read but the slightly improved animation is ok.

TonyOstrich@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I just want the option to have my quick access icons be circular buttons and not this massive blob BS. I got pretty used to having like 20 (maybe a couple less) things that were all accessible from a single spot. It was nice.

helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Nope sorry, for accessibility reasons we decided these particular buttons, and only these buttons, need to have the full name as big as possible, a real-time info lines, and an absurd amount of space around them"

TonyOstrich@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

And as everyone knows, the key to accessibility is not having options or variations of any kind!

bitwolf@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

No no please no

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Just let me make my custom ones the default. Let Icon Pack Studio set that.