{"id":739623,"date":"2026-07-02T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:08","slug":"heres-two-secret-changes-in-new-android-17-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739623\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Two Secret Changes in New Android 17 Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/07\/01\/android-17-qpr1-beta-6-update-for-pixel-phones-just-dropped\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropped on our Pixel phones yesterday<\/a>, you may have wondered if there was anything new. As the build hits Platform Stability and we anticipate a stable launch in the coming months, this isn\u2019t typically a moment where shiny new objects appear for us to enjoy. Google did slide in a couple of noteworthy changes, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Android 17 here, Google has started regularly making UI-related tweaks to improve the look of the latest in Android. We saw them add more blur and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/16\/android-17-update-pixel-phones-download\/#:~:text=Android%2017%20is%20letting%20you%20adjust%20your%20Pixel%20phones%20dark%20theme%20on%20a%20per%2Dapp%20basis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improve the dark theme<\/a>, plus they have other plans to further adjust Material 3 Expressive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/03\/new-android-update-gets-the-hottest-new-color-controls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">give us some wild new color controls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this new build, they\u2019ve started tweaking pop-up menus by making them cleaner and more minimal. In the image below of the Wallpaper &amp; Style pop-up on the home screen, you may notice that the space between each option has been removed and the menu is now one solid bubble. The only complaint I have here is that the text looks more like a headline, but they are actually tappable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"919\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Android 17 new features - QPR1 Beta 6 update\" class=\"wp-image-322171\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ANDROID-17-NEW-FEATURES-980x919.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another new feature comes through Android\u2019s Health Connect. When you first boot QPR1 Beta 6, a notification will inform you that Health Connect now \u201ctracks and stores activity data such as steps, distance, and calories.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hows the newest beta running on your Pixel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 dropped on our Pixel phones yesterday, you may have wondered if there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-739623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}