It’s a very animated, very visually pleasant take on a mobile operating system. When you plug your charger in, another animation plays. For example, when you hit the power button, there’s an animation that illuminates the display from the button itself. There are smaller tweaks to animations and motion in Android 12. Even the lock screen has gotten the treatment - when there aren’t any notifications, the clock takes up a majority of the display, and even with notifications, it’s large enough to easily see at a glance. Everything more or less works the same, but Settings menu options, Quick Settings panel, sliders, and so on are all much larger, bolder, and more colorful.
These bigger icons seem to apply to pretty much every aspect of Android 12. Android 12, it seems, is more about using space smartly than trying to pack more stuff into it.
Buttons are bigger and bolder, everything has large and rounded corners, and Google isn’t as concerned about taking up more space on the display. Here’s a rundown of the new features on offer by Android 12: Design refreshĮasily the biggest change to Android 12 comes in the form of a design refresh. What remains consistent is that there are privacy improvements here and there, with new toggles to keep your microphone and camera off when necessary, a privacy dashboard to see what apps request which permissions, and a lot of under the hood changes to make your phone better overall. Google is touting its Material You overhaul for its Pixel line of phones, while Samsung and Oppo adopt lighter touches of the same basic idea on their operating systems. What Android 12 is will depend on what phone you have. You can read our overview of the Android 12 release schedule to see when your phone can be expected to get it. A handful of other manufacturers, from Vivo to Asus to Xiaomi, have started testing Android 12 releases as well.
Neither have final release dates, but anytime between December and January seems plausible based on prior timelines. As for Samsung users, One UI 4 is already in the beta-testing phase.
Oppo has announced ColorOS 12, its Android 12-based operating system, and beta testing for that began on October 11. It remains to be seen when the update will arrive on other phones. It’s also worth noting that the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a are not expected to get Android 12L (more on that below), while the Pixel 4 and newer will. Google released Android 12 to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) on October 4, with a consumer release coming shortly afterward for all eligible Pixel devices, including the Pixel 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, and 5a, on October 19. Here’s everything you need to know about Android 12.
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