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Android 11 is the first major release since google ditched their dessert focus

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code names last year but while Android's naming scheme is now objectively less

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fun Android 11 actually has a few more

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tangible features for users to play with than its predecessor which focused more

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on under the hood improvements and yeah we know that your samsung or lg phone

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has probably had all these features since 2011. can you just let pixel

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back in march we took a look at the Android 11 developer preview and while a

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lot of features from that release made it through to the final version some of

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them actually didn't now there are others that did make it through but

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they were changed one of the first unusual things about the release of

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Android 11 is that it's not only arriving for pixel devices beta versions

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are already available for select oneplus oppo realme and xiaomi phones now this

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news would make me a bit more optimistic that Android releases could roll out to

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more devices on day one if a these

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weren't chinese brands with limited availability in the west and b

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three out of four of them weren't owned by the same freaking company also c it

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was just a beta release so yeah Android

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phone manufacturers still suck when it comes to getting new versions of Android

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onto devices but because project mainline is now in

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full swing that's google's initiative to break the core components of Android

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into separate modules that can be individually updated through the play

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store allowing out of date devices to get crucial security and feature patches

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without doing a complete system update Android 11 brings the total number of

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mainline modules to 25 up from 13. plus

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big players like samsung and microsoft have committed to providing three years

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of Android upgrades so the Android update situation should get

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better just like lttstore.com has if you've seen the new big water bottles

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also look at this shirt sweet alright enough preamble though

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let's get into some features first up the new embedded media controls

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this feature was included in some of the developer previews but in the final

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release it looks way more polished when video or audio is playing these controls

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can be found in the notification shade as part of the quick settings section

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now before they lived down with the other notifications you know the common

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folk if multiple media sources are active you can swipe between them or just swipe

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them all away you can also tap in the top right corner to switch the audio

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output device thank you that is an awesome Android 10 feature that was

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formerly found in the expanded volume menu love quick access to that while these

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new controls don't clog up your notifications with a giant media control

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box they do take up space in the quick settings tiles so only six tiles are

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displayed per page instead of nine meaning that it could take you like

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three swipes to get to airplane mode that doesn't seem very quick especially

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when the flight attendant catches you using data and you have to get an airplane mode like now where they're

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going to toss you at the airlock thanks google

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of course you can just move them around so speaking of airplane mode turning it

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on will not turn bluetooth off if you have wireless earphones connected that

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actually that's a real thank you google right there now we saw grouped

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notifications show up in the developer preview but their behavior and their

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design is a lot nicer here messages are

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grouped into the conversations category and this along with Android 10's ability

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to categorize app notifications as silent default or priority

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yes turn what was a daunting wall of text

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into far more controlled chaos another messaging feature is bubbles they're

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essentially facebook chat heads but for any messaging app so if you want to use

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them you enable bubbles system wide then you can enable them for specific apps

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and even specific conversations so that you don't have every random message

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floating around on your screen message bubbles are stacked so messenger

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Android messages and whatsapp will all be accessible from the same bubble also

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developers have to enable bubble support so as of now microsoft teams doesn't

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work with it for example but me well honestly i've hated it ever

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since facebook first came up with it so yeah if you like seeing a constant

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reminder on your screen that solitude is a farce in modern society then good news

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for you for the rest of us well it's one more thing to leave disabled

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moving on to built-in screen recording we get to move on to built-in screen

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record it's finally here in more or less the same form that we saw in the dev

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preview you can choose whether to record in device audio the microphone or both

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and you can also toggle the visibility of touch inputs so pixel owners you can

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finally delete those sketchy third-party recorder apps my apologies by the way to

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the developers of said apps az recorder actually very nice in Android 11 holding

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the power button now brings up the upgraded power menu this feature was

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added to Android 10 via pixel updates originally in addition to the normal

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options to restart or turn off your phone there was also an emergency button

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providing quick access to 911 and personal details like your name

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emergency contacts and medical details then google pay cards were added so you

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could quickly access payment cards and boarding passes which is great for the

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drive-through like seriously it's freaking awesome and in Android 11 smart

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home controls have now been added to the power menu allowing you to turn devices

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on and off adjust levels for speakers and light dimmers and start google home

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routines the revamped permission system has arrived virtually unmodified from

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the dev preview allowing users to grant one-time permissions for certain apps to

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say use your camera or location but only

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right now and then next time you open that app it will have to ask for

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permission again and then apps that do have long term access will have their

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permissions reset if they're not used for an extended period of time this is

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my personal favorite Android 11 feature though even though it's not a huge one

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notification freaking history

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i mean is that all i need to say about it no i'll okay i'll finish the thing

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there's now a settings page that displays every notification you've

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received in the past 24 hours so you can find

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finally find that one you accidentally swiped away or that went off in your

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pocket and you're like what even buzz i don't even know what's going on because

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for some reason not all notifications have a time stamp

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and you can even just use it to relive your favorite notification moments

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sure now if you do install Android 11 on a non-pixel device you may miss out on a

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few pixel first features that google has added so in maps when you and a contact

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are sharing locations you can enter live view and get an ar indication where they

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are that's pretty cool you can also allow a suggested apps row to appear on

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your home screen containing you know whatever apps your phone thinks you

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might need to use at the moment since it knows you so well we're basically all

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living in a black mirror episode at this point and the multitasking menu now has

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new options to capture your screen or select text in an app that one's pretty

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minor but it's always annoyed me that on twitter or in messaging apps like google

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hangouts you can only copy the text of the entire tweet or message so now you

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can select just a little bit thanks google and also thank you google

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and okay there's time to go through a couple other minor things quickly here

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um what would be a good name for that uh quack bats really yeah no

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you can pin commonly used apps to the share menu voice access which lets you

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control your phone with just your voice is more intuitive and responsive there's

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support for wireless Android auto which is great if your car supports it

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although apparently early users have been experiencing glitches there's

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better support for playing specific content at various refresh rates per

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your preferences and there's now native hinge angle detection for foldable

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devices that's cool and of course there's 117 new emoji including the dodo

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it's back from extinction baby there's also the easter egg which is a

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cute little reference to spinal tap you know it goes up to 11.

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get it so then what didn't make it in well unlike Android 10 it seems like all

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the features google has on their official Android 11 page are here

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looking at you live captions which only finally rolled out to Android 10 devices

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a few months ago there was a reference to some kind of battery sharing text

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similar to samsung's wireless powershare in the beta it's not here but maybe we

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could see that in the pixel 5. there was also an experimental gesture that

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allowed you to use a double tap on the back of your phone as a customizable

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gesture that's not here but then it is an iOS 14

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which just came out so i don't know how that happened and you also can't

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customize the individual colors of quick settings tiles although that ended up

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looking pretty ugly so i'm actually fine with that

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so yeah not the most exciting release of Android ever i mean we're not getting

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anything revolutionary like iOS 14's widgets

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because we've already had those for 10 years excuse me but there's enough good stuff here to

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make your phone feel a little more fresh

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