These Android 12 essential features will make your day so easy

Google’s Android 12 comes with interesting features that you can experience easily in daily life. It gives you widget options to put your favorite thing in front of your eyes. Android 12 lets you feel much better with its deep security protection. Below you can check the top Android 12 features that will help you to spend your day much easier.

1. Android 12’s wallpaper-based themes

Android 12 has a lot of visual changes, the biggest of which is Material You. Material You’s dynamic colors feature makes use of monet, a new theme engine introduced in Android 12. One of the key things is that the colors are also applied to apps that have been updated to support the theming engine.

2. Game Dashboard

Android 12 Game Dashboard provides quick access tools like screen recording, Quick Screenshot, DND, and FPS monitor.

You can enable Game Dashboard in Android 12 by navigating to Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb. Select the Schedules option from the menu that opens, followed by the settings (cog) icon next to Gaming. Then, enable the Game Dashboard option. You can also enable the Do Not Disturb for games option if you don’t wish to be interrupted by notifications while playing games.

3. One-handed mode

To use Android 12’s one handed mode all you need to follow the below steps,

  • Go to the Settings app on Android 12.
  • Scroll down and tap on System.
  • Scroll down and tap on One-Handed mode.
  • Click on Use one-handed mode.
  • Click ton Exit when switching apps. This way, you can go back to a full-screen view when you’ve completed your tasks.
  • Tap Timeout.
  • Select how long you want the one-handed mode to last when you use the gesture. You can select Never, or 4, 8, or 12 seconds.
  • Exit the Settings app and open another app (here, I’m using Twitter).
  • Swipe down from the bottom center of the screen.

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4. Double Tap Gesture

Android 12 Beta 2 now lets you enable Double Tap gestures directly through the operating system on Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G phones.

  • Open the Settings app in Android 12.
  • Tap System.
  • Tap Gestures.
  • From Gestures, tap Quick Tap, then tap the Use Quick Tap slider. If you don’t see it, your phone doesn’t support Android 12’s native double-tap feature.

By default, Quick Tap is set to take a screenshot, but you can edit it to trigger Google Assistant, pause or play media, open your Recent Apps menu, show the notification shade, or even open a custom application.

5. Privacy Dashboard

Google’s Android 12 new Privacy Dashboard is the main key to see exactly what apps are using which permissions and when they are doing it.

  • Open your phone’s settings menu.
  • Scroll to the Privacy section and tap the entry.
  • In the new window that opens choose Privacy Dashboard at the top of the list.
  • Once you have the Privacy Dashboard open, you can choose a category to see which apps have used the associated permission.

6. Markup tool gains emoji and text stickers

You’re now able to add text and emoji to screenshots and images in Android 12, in a change that might relegate some image editing apps to the sideline. Once you tap “Edit,” you’re greeted with a near-identical UI as before. However, undo/redo has been moved to the top bar next to Share and Trash. The first tool at the bottom is a crop, which is no longer always active in the preview. You can add text with the keyboard automatically opening and seven colors available. Emoji stickers are a huge addition with all your on-device options available.

You can find the option tucked under Settings > Accessibility > Extra dim. Alternatively, there’s a Quick Settings tile for it as well.

7. Conversation widget

Google with its latest Android version – Android 12 brings widgets section to make handy Conversation very easy to use. The widget will help you access your most frequent conversations in just a tap, irrespective of the app you use.

How to add a Conversation widget to your home screen:

  • Long-press on an empty area of your home screen. From the menu that pops up, select Widgets.
  • Scroll down and select Conversation, followed by the Conversation widget.
  • You can resize the widget as per your liking. Now, select a recent conversation that you’d like to show in the widget. You can then quickly access the conversation by simply tapping on it.

9. Scrolling screenshots

In this section, we will check how to take a scrolling screenshot on Android 12.

You’ll have to react fast! With your screenshot taken, a preview will pop up in the bottom left corner, along with some other options.

Tap the rightmost option to “Capture more.” This option won’t appear if you can’t scroll the screen, so don’t be concerned if it doesn’t appear for every screenshot you take.

You’ll now have a screen showing the whole of the page you want to screenshot.

Simply drag the sliders to include the portion of the screen you want. A loop will appear to help you find the precise spot you want your screenshot to start and end.

When you’re satisfied, press the “Save” button in the top-left corner.
You’ll be able to find this screenshot in your usual folder.

Meanwhile, you can click on the Share button in the top right to send the screenshot to one of your contacts or through another app, or tap the pencil icon on the bottom right to make more edits, such as annotations.

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