{"id":34645,"date":"2021-02-24T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=34645"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:34:07","slug":"android-12-google-announces-a-bunch-of-new-features-coming-to-android-before-version-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/future\/android-12-google-announces-a-bunch-of-new-features-coming-to-android-before-version-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 12: Google announces a bunch of new features coming to Android before version 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google may be hard at work on Android 12, but you won\u2019t have to wait that long to get some new features on Android devices. The company today announced 6 new features coming to various devices running older versions of the mobile OS with a litany of independent updates.<\/p>\n<p>For individuals with Android Messages &#8212; that the texting program included with Pixel phones along with some different devices approximating &#8216;inventory&#8217; Android &#8212; Google will let you schedule messages to ship at particular times. It may be utilized for approving a buddy about something significant, wishing somebody a happy birthday quite later, or organizing events.<\/p>\n<p>Google itself provides the instance of texting a buddy in a different time zone; that way you&#8217;ll be able to schedule a message to see if they are not sleeping.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxfrZV1kkhM\" width=\"610\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Also noteworthy, Google introduced its own Password Checkup instrument &#8212; the one it has been utilizing in Chrome for a while &#8212; to alarm you in case your login credentials are exposed and possibly discovered on the shady areas of the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>The application applies to passwords saved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/business\/fortnite-for-android-just-got-axed-from-the-google-play-store-too\/\">Google&#8217;s Android<\/a>-wide autofill feature, which functions with an assortment of apps. Though your password being compromised does not necessarily mean somebody has stolen your data, it is certainly a fantastic idea to change it up.<\/p>\n<p>Google Maps is becoming a correct dark manner also. It is possible to visit the app&#8217;s preferences, tap &#8216;Theme&#8217; and choose Always in Black Theme. Similarly, you can elect to maintain the light motif here if you want a brighter appearance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/24085410\/google-features.jpg\" alt=\"google features\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/24085410\/google-features.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/24085410\/google-features-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/24085410\/google-features-27x17.jpg 27w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Android has made improvements to TalkBack, an entry feature for visually impaired men and women. The upgrade includes &#8220;more intuitive gestures, a more unified menu, a fresh reading control menu, and more&#8221; You may read more about those enhancements here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/40hITd7mvXY\" width=\"610\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Google is also making it much easier to utilize the Assistant without unlocking or touching your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/future\/future-of-mobile-phones-in-2025\/\">mobile phone<\/a>. Your device will show cards that could be read more easily to validate your own activities, and now you can enable more private tasks &#8212; such as sending texts and producing calls without unlocking your own apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly, the Assistant might ask that you unlock your phone before you can conduct these tasks (unless you&#8217;re using cans), which frequently made them worthless; when I have already unlocked my phone, odds are it&#8217;s simpler to dial-up a number or sort a message. It is a welcome switch.<br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/blog-to-video-ai-free-without-watermark\/\">[10 Best] Blog To Video AI Free (Without Watermark)<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Last, Google has released several updates to Android Auto, letting you personalize your background, play trivia games via the helper, and adding shortcuts to this launch screen.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, Google has been working towards making Android a bit more modular, permitting the enterprise to update important services and programs connected with the phone OS without needing a complete system upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Though we are guaranteed to see more updates with Android 12, it is wonderful to know that we do not need to wait for a complete year simply to access some helpful capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may be hard at work on Android 12, but you won\u2019t have to wait that long to get some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":34647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[915,190,3527,3524,2327,3525,2339,3526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34650,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions\/34650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/34647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}