Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3<\/a> that rolled out on Friday, Google has added a new Quick Settings layout changer. This first appearance of this feature is limited, but it does at least allow you to adjust the order of the Quick Settings area for things like your Quick Settings tiles, brightness slider, and media player.<\/p>\nTo get started with this, when you swipe down your Quick Settings area on a Pixel phone, you\u2019ll be able to tap on a new edit button that we\u2019ve circled below.<\/p>\n
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That will take you to a new Quick Settings editor screen with one page that allows you to Edit the tiles in your Quick Settings, along with a new one called \u201cLayout.\u201d This Layout panel lets you adjust the layout of those options we talked about above, including media player, brightness slider, and where the tiles\/shortcuts area lives. <\/p>\n
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At the moment, you can\u2019t adjust the size of these areas, you can only re-arrange the order of them. The default setting is for brightness slider up top, tiles in the middle, and the media player at the bottom. However, you can now swap them all into a place that better serves your needs, like how I have brightness on the bottom now, making it so much easier to reach.<\/p>\n
Since this is a part of Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3, not everyone can test or play with this just yet. If you\u2019d like to, you can always join the Android Beta Program<\/a> and start using this right away. Otherwise, it this feature isn\u2019t expected to hit all Pixel phones until a stable release in December of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret that Google\u2019s Pixel phones lack many of the customization options that Samsung phones have. Even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-857809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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