Android 13 is now obtainable for sure Google Pixel homeowners to set up, however Samsung Galaxy, Motorola and different Android customers may have to wait till later this 12 months to get their arms on Google’s newest cellular software program replace. Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless a ton to discover on Android 12, which most individuals are nonetheless working on their Android telephones.

Learn extra: How to Obtain Android 13 Beta 2 on Your Telephone Now

Whether or not you personal a Pixel 6 Professional or a Samsung Galaxy S22, you’ll find a lot of hidden settings and options on Android 12 that may fully change how you utilize your Android system.

On this story we’ll present you the way to get well by accident deleted notifications, use your telephone with just one hand and extra. Try what Android 12 has to provide beneath.

If you’d like to study extra about how one can enhance your Android expertise, take a look at these seven suggestions to enhance your Android’s efficiency and how to save battery with Android’s built-in darkish mode.

Android 12 retains your notification historical past a faucet away

Do you ever filter out a notification with out studying it? I do it on a regular basis. Android has supplied system notification historical past for a while now, however you both had to know the place to look, otherwise you had to set up a third-party app to see it. 

In Android 12, all you’ve to do is scroll to the underside of your notification shade, the place you may see a brand new Historical past button. Faucet it, and you may see not too long ago cleared notifications in addition to alerts from the final 24 hours. 

In the event you see Handle as an alternative of Historical past, that is as a result of Notification Historical past is not turned on. Allow it by tapping on Handle, then choose Notification Historical past and slide the change to the On place. 

Android 12 makes massive telephones really feel smaller

A brand new one-handed mode in Android 12 will not be a headlining characteristic, nevertheless it’s one that would make a giant distinction in how you utilize your telephone. That is very true in case you’re utilizing a telephone with a giant show, just like the Galaxy S22 Extremely.

The brand new one-handed mode strikes the highest half of no matter’s in your display to the underside half, making it simpler to faucet a fast settings tile or a notification. To make use of it, place a finger on the small bar on the backside of your telephone’s display and swipe down. It could take a number of tries, however when you get the gesture discovered, it is simple to reproduce.

Earlier than you are able to do that, although, you may want to flip it on: go into the Settings app, kind in One-handed mode and toggle the characteristic on. Relying on which Android telephone you’ve, this characteristic might need totally different settings you’ll be able to toggle on and off.

There is a devoted gaming mode in Android 12

In the event you play loads of video games in your Android system, you may be comfortable to know that Google added a devoted gaming mode to Android 12. When it is turned on, your telephone will do issues like mechanically activate don’t disturb while you begin enjoying. 

But you’d by no means know the mode existed in case you did not enterprise deep into, of all locations, your notification settings. Extra particularly, go to Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Schedules. As soon as there, verify the field subsequent to Recreation Mode to flip it on. Subsequent, faucet on the Settings gear icon to and toggle each objects.

In my expertise testing it, recreation mode would not work in each recreation ( you, Asphalt 9). It does work in Name of Responsibility Cell, nevertheless. When it is lively, you are able to do issues like power your telephone to optimize itself for gaming in a single-tap or view your system’s present frames per second.

Android 12 has a brand new app format possibility

The app grid in your telephone’s dwelling display usually ranges for a 4×4, 5×5 or 6×6 grid (or comparable mixtures). Nonetheless, in Android 12 on the Pixel, there is a new app grid possibility that is downright humorous at first look — 2×2. I assume that is restricted to simply Pixel telephones, however hopefully, different phone-makers undertake it, because it’s an enormous accessibility characteristic for these in want of bigger app icons. 

Change to the brand new 2×2 format with a long-press on your property display, then choose Wallpaper & model > App Grid > 2×2. 

For extra, take a look at the greatest Android telephones and Samsung telephones to purchase in 2022, each cause why you need to give Pixel telephones one other likelihood and the way the Pixel 6 with its Tensor chip is extra thrilling than the iPhone 13.