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Android 15 is set to bring an array of new features designed to enhance user experience, privacy, and device performance. Here’s a rundown of the top 10 features coming with Android 15:
- Private Space: This feature allows users to lock sensitive apps and data in a separate, secure section requiring additional authentication. It keeps private information hidden from the app drawer and overview menu, enhancing privacy.
- Notification Cooldown: To reduce notification fatigue, Android 15 introduces a notification cooldown feature that lowers the volume of repeated notifications from the same app, especially useful for group chats.
- System-wide Keyboard Vibration Toggle: Users can now control keyboard vibration settings across all keyboards from a single system-wide toggle, offering greater customization with an intensity slider.
- Partial Screen Recording: Instead of recording the entire screen, Android 15 allows users to record individual apps, which is useful for sharing specific content without exposing notifications or other apps.
- Enhanced Bluetooth Tile: The Bluetooth quick settings tile now includes paired devices and a simplified connection interface, similar to the existing Internet tile, making device management more straightforward.
- Edge-to-Edge Displays: Apps can now use the full width of the display, enhancing the immersive experience, especially on tablets and devices with gesture navigation bars.
- Improved Multitasking on Foldables: Android 15 supports better continuity for foldable devices, allowing tasks to switch smoothly between screens when folded and enhancing multitasking capabilities with saved split-screen app combinations.
- Dynamic Performance Framework: This new set of APIs helps optimize performance and power efficiency, particularly for background tasks, to prevent unnecessary resource usage and reduce thermal throttling in demanding applications.
- High-Quality Webcam Mode: Android 15 introduces an HQ mode for using phones as webcams, offering better video quality, although it might increase device temperature during use.
- Always-Active Taskbar: For foldables and tablets, Android 15 adds a persistent taskbar, improving navigation and app management by keeping essential apps and functions readily accessible at the bottom of the screen.
These features collectively aim to provide a more refined and customizable Android experience, enhancing productivity, user control, and privacy across various device types.
