We like UI changes in new versions of Android because they at least make it feel new, even if the feature set or any other list of changes doesn’t matter much to the user interface. most of us. When Google changes the way something looks, we get strangely excited in a way that I’m not sure makes sense, because it tricks our minds into thinking an update is much more important than it is is not. So when we see this (maybe) A change is coming to the volume slider situation in Android 16, well we had to share.
Below you will see a comparison of the Android 15 volume panel compared to what the Android 16 volume panel could be. This was enabled in the latest Android 16 Developer Preview 2 and is not yet present for any reason. any old user. I point this out because it might mean we’ll never see this. This is sort of an ongoing situation, although we’re sort of hoping it will eventually land on Android 16 later this year.
The new sliders for the volume controls display a sliding bar with a line as an endpoint that marks where your volume level is. In the old version we got these rounded bubbles that always made it difficult to determine exactly where your volume was. A line looks much more precise than a rounded end, at least in my opinion.
Google has apparently worked this bar-line UI into all volume areas, not just this volume panel. You would also see this by simply adjusting the volume on your phone. Some volume UI elements may also end up with a rectangular style, leaving all the roundness in the past.
When might we see this? Nobody knows. This was buried in DP2, so it could appear in Android 16 DP3 this month or at stable launch or never. It could just be a UI style that Google is testing and then scrapped before being finalized. In fact, they often do this with changes in these releases, which is why they are marked with “maybe” or “might” or “could” as an attachment.
Looks pretty cool, right? Or does it matter? This is not the case. Again, we just like the changes in the UI. It’s easy to be seduced by flashy shirts covering piles of poop. Not that Android 16 is poop… you get what I’m saying.
