Google’s next Android operating system, Android 15, is still in the works, and it is significantly experimenting with several new functionalities in order to offer Android users an advanced software experience. With that, some latest reports reveal that Google might appear to be experimenting with the lock screen widget support, which is coming back with Android 15. Samsung has already provided support for the lock screen widget on its Galaxy phones, but Google has now pledged to reintroduce the functionality that it had previously neglected.

Widgets make accessing any application easier; meanwhile, with Android 15, Google is currently experimenting on a minor change with the At a Glance widget, moving the widget straight at the bottom of the phone’s lock screen, which is now placed at the top underneath the date on the lock screen. Moreover, this new tweak looks exactly similar to that of the Live Activities in iOS. 

At a glance, a widget could move to the bottom of the lock screen: 

Google has been reportedly working on Android 15 to revamp the At a Glance widget on the lock screen by significantly changing its position, which seems to be a similar approach to that of the iPhones. In the Android 15 lock screen testing, Google is aiming to significantly change the position of the At a Glance widget and certainly move it to the bottom of the lock screen, which is currently located right beneath the date. 

This new change appears to be literally interactive, offering a new look to the Android’s lock screen. However, Google needs to perform plenty of work, as due to the At a Glance widget placed at the bottom, the phone’s lock screen might look fuzzy yet complicated with all the notifications and At a Glance information appearing on the screen. 

Moreover, as mentioned, Samsung already offers the capability of lock screen widgets to its Galaxy devices. Now,  with Android 15, Google is taking a significant step towards introducing the lock screen widget back to Android phones in the form of the At-a-Glance repositioning. Also, with this repositioning, Google will be required to make sure that all the widgets within the At a Glance must adapt themselves to fit the area provided on the lock screen.

Source – Android Police

Google’s next major iteration, Android 15, is actively in the developing stage and is expected to stop phones from vibrating while getting a lot of notifications. 

Google has recently made Android 15 Beta 1.2 available to download, which has brought some crucial improvements. Now reports are revealing that Android 15 will bring new functionality to enhance the users’ experience, which will force the phone to stop vibrating while getting a lot of notifications. 

Android 15’s notification cooldown reduces the volume of repeated notifications from the same application. However, at the moment, it doesn’t stop the phone from vibrating for each notification. However, we anticipate a future update to address this issue.

Speculation suggests that the reporter, while exploring the latest Android 15 Beta 1.2 update, successfully restored the notification cooldown settings page (Settings >> Notifications >> Notification cooldown), which Google had previously hidden from users in Android 15 Beta 1. According to the reports, a new toggle has been added that was previously unavailable: “vibrate when unlocked.” According to the description, this toggle makes it so the device will “only vibrate when [the] screen is unlocked.” 

By authorizing this toggle, the phone will avoid vibrating while receiving a ton of successive notifications from the same application. Notification cooldown silences Android 15 repeated notifications from a similar application, but it is possible that it could still vibrate your phone for each one. Apart from this, there’s an option to disable vibration only when your phone is unlocked. 

Users will get the power to enable “vibrate when unlocked” for peace and silence. They can disable both “vibrate when unlocked” and notification cooldown entirely to receive all notifications with vibration. Users can change the cooldown to apply only to conversations if they want silence for repetitive chats but notifications for other applications.r

Google is actively preparing for its upcoming version, as demonstrated by the availability of Android 15 Beta 1.2 for download just a few days after the release of Beta 1.1. We anticipate that the stable version of Android 15 will allow you to force apps to go dark, even if they don’t support the feature.

The metrics for 2022 suggest that 81.9% of readers use dark mode on their phones. Google offers support for a system-wide dark mode toggle in Android 14. Despite all of this, some of the applications still don’t have a dark theme, such as the ones from Fitbit or Amazon Shopping, but now the Android 15 update will overcome this lack and let you force these apps to go dark, even if they don’t have a built-in dark theme. 

Back in January, Google hid a new’make all apps dark’ toggle under Settings >> Accessibility >> Color and Motion in the Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2. This toggle was not visible by default in Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2, and it was not even visible in Android 15 Beta 1.2.

According to reports, testing revealed that’make all apps dark’ outperforms ‘override force-dark’ in more applications, implying that the current developer opt-out is no longer functional and that the fundamental force-dark algorithm has changed. Android is introducing ‘make all apps dark’, a new accessibility setting that enhances the existing ‘override force-dark’ option and distinguishes itself from color inversion, which causes image distortion.

Currently, Android 15 Beta 1.2 lacks the’make all apps dark’ feature, but Google I/O 2024 next month could see the introduction of this feature in Android 15 Beta 2.