When the camera or mic is in use, a little green dot will appear at the top right of the screen. What's more, when you first launch an app and it wants access to your location you can decide to have it only get access to an approximate location rather than precise.Īndroid 12 has also added quick on/off toggles in the quick shade menu that disable the mic, location and camera so that nothing can access them. Whether that be your camera and mic or location. It'll give you easy access to see what apps have accessed certain permissions. One of the major new official changes is the Privacy Dashboard. Just bring up the default share menu and tap 'more' where it loads your other apps and gives you the edit option next to Nearby Share below the image thumbnail. Similar to marking up screenshots above, when you go to share an image file there's a new 'Edit' option that lets you mark up pictures before sending them on. You can resize them easily too by just pinching to zoom.Īs a side note to that, you can now easily dismiss screenshot thumbnails by swiping them off the screen. Plus you can stick some emojis on there if you want by pressing the little sticker icon. Head to the edit/markup function and you can now type text on to your screenshots in a number of different font colours.

Take a screenshot and if the page is longer than you've captured, there's the option to capture more. So if your wallpaper is predominantly pink/purple, the quick settings shade will be too. Google has enabled the feature that allows it to pick a colour automatically based on whatever wallpaper you have, called Material You. What's interesting here is the colour scheme. Instead, they've been replaced by much larger rectangular controls, similar to those we saw in Android 11's Power menu for controlling smarthome devices. When you drop down quick settings and notifications from the top of the screen you'll no longer see those little round toggles.

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