Google goes to make some modifications to the Android standing bar with the Android 15 replace. The standing bar, the bar operating throughout the highest of an Android cellphone, shows icons to present the consumer sure data comparable to whether or not the cellphone is linked to Wi-Fi or a mobile sign (exhibiting the sign power for every), the present time, open apps, battery proportion remaining, and extra.
Android Authority has posted photographs of among the modifications going down to the standing bar in Android 15 together with a brand new battery icon that reveals the share of battery life remaining contained in the icon itself, which resembles a battery laying on its facet. In the event you don’t love being continually reminded how a lot battery life you’ve gotten remaining (for some, it is a set off that can have them trying to find an outlet impulsively), you possibly can depart the share toggled off leaving the sideways battery icon with out the numbers inside it. On this situation, a grey bar contained in the battery icon will get smaller akin to the share of battery life remaining.
Modifications are coming to the standing bar in Android 15. Picture credit-Android Authority
It’s attention-grabbing that some smartphone homeowners do not wish to know exactly how a lot battery life they’ve left. On Android (and iOS), the battery proportion is lacking from the standing bar by default. As for this author, I might reasonably know precisely how a lot time I’ve earlier than having to seek out an outlet as an alternative of making an attempt to determine what the battery icon alone is telling me. To have the battery proportion seem on Android and iOS, you are able to do the identical factor no matter which platform you utilize: Go to Settings > Battery and toggle on Battery proportion.Â
As we instructed you on the finish of final month, Android 15 may even change the look of the quantity panel with new, thicker, collapsible sliders and a few helpful new options. We should always be taught extra about Android 15 on Might tenth when Google holds its annual Google I/O developer convention. Whereas the Android 15 Developer Preview is at the moment being supplied by Google, the primary Beta launch for Android 15 is predicted to drop this month.
