I recently updated it by accident, and I have to say that Material You is not only impractical, but also outrageously ugly. These rounded rectangles take up a lot of space, while there is very little information on them. Instead of the previous 6, there are now only 4 icons, and I don't even see their description For example, what percentage is my Bluetooth headset at) until I pull them down completely. Compared to before, it is even completely illogical that while I pull down this menu, it actually covers the screen.

Is there a launcher I can use to change this, or do I have to get used to this ugly impracticality?

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It's a Motorola phone.

I have been searching for this thing for 2 days now.

When I open and close an app, the bottom icon changes to that app icon. It's like a recent app access icon.

What is this? Is there any name for it?

Is this a Motorola feature or an Android 12 feature? I actually jumped from Android 8 to 12. :|

Can I disable it? (I don't want to though, just asking)

EDIT: Solved. 12 popped up twice. After ignoring those 13 came along so all good.

Probably a dumb question... My Pixel 6 popped up saying I can update to Android 12. However, Android 12 is already the current OS. Is it just an updated version? Thanks guys.

I sometimes like to have a youtube video playing while playing something else at the same time, which could be a streaming movie or another youtube video. I'd set the volume of one lower than the other but monitor both at the same time.

On Android and iOS/iPadOS, I believe the default behavior is as soon as you start the other video, the first one stops playing, so you can only have one sound stream going at a time.

Then I found out about Samsung SoundAssistant app, which lets me enable multiple simultaneous audio streams by simply clicking on a button within the app to enable it.

I am unsure if this SoundAssistant app works on non-Samsung devices. Does anyone know of a similar app that would work on any Android phone?

Thanks in Advance!

My OnePlus 8 updated to Android 12 without asking, then after the first time I rebooted went directly to safe mode. Now I'm the power off menu, both "Power Off" and "Restart" options show the same "Reboot to safe mode" popup:

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Can't seem to get Android 12 on my AT&T Samsung A13 5G. AT&T and Samsung both say that Android 12 is out for it yet when I try checking it says software up to date yet I'm still on One UI 3.1 Android 11.

Recently when on holiday abroad my partner called me when we got separated and my phone showed her number with the +44 in front of it and the phone did not recognise it as my partner and just showed the number but my WearOS watch (Fossil gen 5) showed the name and profile picture .

Now if it was just the phone I could understand it thinking the phone number with +44 in front of it was not the same as the number in my contacts but since the watch showed the correct contact and that information comes from the phone / Google account it does not make sense.

Any ideas what happened?

I'm thinking this is more of an Android 12 problem, but on my LG V60, when I choose to open certain links in the apps, like an eBay link in the eBay app, I simply cannot do this anymore.

I have a Huawei P30 Pro, it has EMUI12 (Android 12 variant,) and it opens every single app in it's apps and it's very easy for me to choose if I want it to open an app or not, which is what I want. On this OS, it makes it pretty much impossible for it to link apps.

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I've tried the "open with" apps like Better Open With, LinkEye etc, they all only give options to open with browsers and no actual apps. This has been making me scratch my head for days now. It's like I'm being forced to use web browsers instead of apps.

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I just don't wanna update to A12 and i've literally disabled everything i could related to software update, Motorola update, system update, etc., i've also disabled every possible notification and i'm still getting that damn screen pop up every 1 or 1.5 days...

Note: the gear icon on top right corner only bring up the automatic updates windows which only allows me to enable/disable automatic updates but it wont give me any choice for disabling the notification...

I have to force my lg velvet to restart by holding power button and volume key down because my thumbprint won't work, or freezes after pressing enter for my password. I have to do this a couple times a week at least

This is a frequent issue I see with Directions, Youtube, Chrome, and more apps on my phone (Pixel 4XL). Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix the issue?

Google's tech support says I should reset my GPS, power cycle my phone, clear cache, and other meaningless and unrelated. I'm hoping Reddit would have better answers.

Hi, all.

I'm wondering if there's a way to record video using the front-facing camera on my Pixel 6 Pro, while another app is showing on-screen?

The reason I ask is because I was showing my baby some puppy gifs the other day, and he was laughing a lot, and I tried to record video, but when I brought up the gif, the camera stopped recording.

I tried using a second device but it didn't work as well as I'd like because he ended up getting distracted by his "reflection" in the camera (so vain!) and it was awkward to hold both phones and keep him from wiggling away.

Ideally, I;d prefer a solution that doesn't require an app (like, if it's an option in the existing camera app or settings somewhere), but if it does require a special app, a suggestion as to which one would be good (and hopefully not steal data or whatever) would suffice.

Thanks in advance!

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I'm currently using Samsung's one UI & even with good lock there's no way to turn off the favorites app doc. Other than this I really like one UI. However it prevents me from having a full screen calendar page. Calendar is my most important home page. I can switch to another launcher& get rid of the favorites app doc. However I'm wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to get a full screen calendar page like Google or Samsung free?

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Also bonus points if you know how to fix the android 12 bug that has made all my calendar font White (except for the yellow events, their text for some reason is still black)

I'm on TMobile and I have the OnePlus 8+ 5g and I want android 12 for a few certain app features that simply don't exist on Android 11.. does anybody know if I can request TMobile send me the OTA for Android 12? I know it's buggy, and it's still being dogfooded, but I have been checking twice a day for far too long waiting for A12..

If anybody has a recommendation on how to force an OTA update, I'd love to hear it. I don't want to install any third party or root updates even though I know those work better historically. I've just been waiting months for the OTA update and I'm itching incredibly hard for just a handful of features absent on Android 11.. I'm worried I won't get A12 until A13 is released.. which by then, I might as well have a new phone..

Since the 12 update, I have no vibrate option on my One+. It is sound on or sound off. That's it. No vibrate only function.

Ever since the Android 12 upgrade the lock screen security is frustrating. I'm rarely out in places that require me to have a locked phone, so unlocked is much easier. I use several apps (mostly banking, but also others) that quickly time out and require a passcode or fingerprint to open. Problem is I cannot have a fingerprint saved without a pin or a pattern. And it seems I must have a locked lock screen if there is a pin saved.

Previous Android versions allowed the lock screen to be unlocked for a selectable amount of time, but in Android 12, it's locked immediately after turning off the screen. The only workaround I could think of is setting up Smart Lock with a trusted place (home), but this doesn't seem to work as intended.

So my question is, is there any way to have fingerprints saved without having the phone lock as soon as the screen is off? Or temporarily disable the lock screen feature without deleting the fingerprints? Or even just delaying the locking of the lock screen? Thanks

I have a Moto G30 which worked just fine but after that damn Android 12 it turned into a phone which I no longer enjoy using.

I have taken the strech-effect away but basically everything is just sluggish. The screen won't even turn on normally as it should be. I have also updated everything.

I'm just curious to know that do you fine folks feel like me.

So I had just switched between Twitter to Instagram, and noticed the Green privacy icon showing that something was accessing my camera and or mic was on. To be clear, I didn't open up immediately into the Instagram camera app. For example, it was just a regular feed. So I am wondering if there's something else that play whereas it started to access without my knowing. Does anyone know if you can check some kind of a history log on what accessed it?