Android 16’s Revamped Do Not Disturb Mode Is One other Step In direction of Smartphone Dumbification

Mishaal Rahman at Android Authority spotted a brand new Precedence Modes function whereas tinkering with the primary quarterly platform launch (QPR) of Android 15. Although this function provides much more than simply minimizing distractions in your cellphone, I can’t assist however consider it as step one in the direction of the smartphone dumbification pattern that’s been going round.

This mode permits customers to totally customise a DND mode, together with the title, settings, and icon. You may’t add your personal icon, however there are 40 to select from. You may set a schedule for the mode to allow mechanically and select to permit or block notifications throughout that point.

Apparently, it permits you to change your display to black and white, disable the always-on show choice, dim the wallpaper, and allow a darkish theme. With smartphones taking on our lives, relationships, and sanity, persons are turning to apps and companies to scale back display time. I’ve notably observed a brand new pattern of “dumbifying your smartphone” on the tech YouTube channels I routinely go to. This entails making your cellphone so unappealing to make use of that you just spend much less time on it. A number of the show options talked about above are often part of the dumbification, so I’m very glad to see that you could possibly do it merely by way of Android 16 with out downloading any devoted apps for it.

Precedence Modes takes the common Do Not Disturb mode to a different stage by including a bunch of latest options. As an alternative of complementing Do Not Disturb, it seems like it’s going to exchange it fully. Android Authority predicts the discharge of Android 16 for Precedence Mode however provides that we would see it within the first, second, or third QPR of Android 15.

One other feature the positioning found whereas digging into Android 15’s QPR is “bubble something.” This one provides a “bubble” button to the choices that present up if you press and maintain on an app, and upon deciding on the button, the app is positioned in a floating bubble on one facet of the display.

This function was in a position to work on Android 15’s QPR 1 Beta 2, however its official launch remains to be predicted for Android 16. The bubble something function goals to ease multitasking, permitting you to navigate two apps concurrently. Android 11, launched in 2020, launched the identical function however restricted compatibility to simply the messaging app. With bubble something rolling out, we’re hoping to see it throughout all of the apps you utilize.

I’ve been an iPhone consumer for the previous seven years however developed critical FOMO after briefly utilizing the OneUI 6.1 on the Samsung S24 Ultra. iOS has no options for Samsung’s multi-tasking options just like the split screen or pop-up view. Possibly Apple will catch up in a couple of years and announce it as sheer innovation, precisely what it did with the flexibility to maneuver apps round on your own home display.