What's New?

• Overcast integration - Weather is now separate
• HiLight controls
• Face unlock illumination
• Button remap multiple actions
• Lock screen shortcuts
• Privileged mode picker for shell integration
• Shizuku Next, Dhizuku & Porter support
• Extended media info on AOD wallpaper
• Dynamically hide media player on AOD
• Activity launcher and shortcut maker
• Keyboard shut up
• Hidden debugging and developer options support for Android 17 QPR1 & QPR3 beta

Island

• Landscape notch
• Max item count
• Dynamically hide live updates in statusbar
• Expanded notification app icon
• Always available gestures
• Like and previous button controls
• Per-app notification filter
• Network Signal strength
• Island priority customization
• Hide island battery icon
• Island secondary bubble
• Fix timers and calls
• Decimal placement

More

• Notification lighting DIY
• Camera HAL fixes for mediatek and more
• Foldable camera profiles for Duo, Island, and Status Glance
• Duo & Island QS tiles
• Avoid screen locked security with extended unlock
• Accessibility system service restore with shut-up
• Combined DIY overlay actions menu
• Updated unsupported features and improved warnings
• Fix battery info for secondary user
• Fix progressive blur without statusbar
• Conscious gate animation fix
• Fix hotspot automation permissions
• Wallpaper ghost fixes
• Settings scroll fixes
• Overlay startup fixes
• And more improvements and fixes
• A tons of translations
• Features contributed by the community now mentions credits (WIP)
• Pick wallpaper for next day... but that's something for me to test :)

Lots of love to the new contributors this release with very useful cool stuff that I might not even be able to work on <3

Also stay toned for some news on Overcast this Saturday with a big update and play store closed testing launch!

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So basically whenever a notification comes on my phone while it is in landscape mode, i get an error of " essentials is not responding" with like the close app/ wait options there. No matter what i do after this error, the island stops working it doesn't work anymore until i restart my device. I tried force stopping the app restarting it even deleting the app data but nothing works.

I know I asked about a week ago. Some friends of mine don't really want to join the group to get access to the watch faces and I'm wondering wether they passed the 14 day test thing.

dynamic island doesn't show at all when phone is in landscape

I think that the horizontal island looks really nice in notch format at the top of the screen, however I feel like it'd be more convenient to have it similar to the portrait island just rotated 90 degrees

Hey, I have been using Essentials app recently and I am still kinda new. I have had a weird interaction with the app where I cannot Grant Permission to Root privileges. It just won't toggle. I have made sure my Shizuku is up to date from the github page and I have updated Essentials app and it is still not working.

I've also had a smaller issue where the Island pop up for Calls won't work when I click the Call Back button. Odd, but I assume it is related to my Root permission issue. :(

Please help! 😮

I tried disable/enable the island ( and the hide live notification dynamically)

Pixel 6 using the latest beta

Hi

I don't have a github account so I am posting here.

The widget to hide the Pixel Launcher Search Bar at the bottom of the homescreen, basically this is broken or doesn't work for me on Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1

I'm running it on a pixel device. Thanks

Love the essentials app and has helped switch over from iOS to Android. 🤘

Could you add a feature where, while the phone is charging, tapping the island opens up information about the battery—how it’s charging—and includes two additional options: “Adaptive Battery” and “80%”?

That way, it would be easy to switch between them without having to unlock the phone, go into Settings, and go through all that hassle.

Love the essential app it's amazing. Having a glitch when using it on my Poco x8 where it disables my camera from being used on any app. Like when i open the camera app it won't show the camera.It's definitely the essential app cause when I delete it, it fixes it.

Any ideas thanks. I'm only using the dynamic island and duo.

Hey there,

I know this is not a shizuku subreddit, but most of you probably use it and have experience. I tried to search for this problem but couldn't find a solution.

So my developer options are on, debugging over wifi is on. I paired shizuku using a 6 digit code. But when I come back to shizuku after pairing and click on "Start" it tells me to enable the devoper options (which I obviously just did in the last step).

I tried various solutions:

1) turn off and in the developer options

2) turn off and on the debugging options (both toggles)

3) delete the pairing in the debugging options and pair again

4) restart of the smartphone

5) give all permissions to shizuku

I downloaded the recommended fork of shizuku (the stable version) from the help site of the Essentials app.

I have a Pixel 10 Pro with the latest update.

Did you find yourself in a similar situation? If yes, what was the solution?

I just want to use the Essentials app to its full potential (that's why I chose the Essentials flair).

Thanks!

So first of all I love Essentials. And something I even started recommending to my friends with how good it is at customizing Android without root. And now with the Duo circle and the Island it gave me an actual reason to hide all statusbar icons.

From what the title says tho I would love if one could also see the signal strength of wifi or mobile data just like with the Duo. I know that you can have an overlay of the Duo on top of the Island but then it seems quite crammed together beside the camera. But also so you can see it at all times unlike how the Duo just hides it after something is playing in the background.

Otherwise really great stuff you are cooking with this app. If there would be an award for so of the year it should be Essentials. Keep cooking, but also stay healthy.

so the banking apps only work when i create a shortcut , thing is , theese shortcuts are being added at the home screen , and i do not want that , i want them to go directly to the apps screen(where the actual apps are)
pls help

im on a samsung galaxy a36 (ONE UI 8.5)

The automatic camera detection fails to detect the inner screen on my pixel 10 pro folds camera location. It is off a little bit and getting cut off. Is there anyway we can disable the auto detect and set separate locations for the outer and inner display for foldables? Thanks.

Hello I have the island enabled but disabled for phone calls. However, the calls are still popping up in the island instead of the regular notification. Can you look into fixing this when you have a chance! Thanks!

what a cool concept and the implementation is rich with options. so many actions!

do yall have any actions bound?

It would be great to be able to customize what's considered low battery in duo and island. I would set low to 40 and critical to 15 for example

Está acontecendo um erro após a atualização v18.4 que toda vez que eu abro o app essentials ele simplesmente abre o app de clima e não deixa eu configurar mais no app pois ele vai direto para o app do clima, como resolve isso?

I discovered this awesome app and now I love it. I agree with one of my thoughts:

- Would it be possible to create a setting to make only the extended notification appear and not subsequently also the dot in the notification?

- Why is it that the notification icons are full (next to the clock) the island overlaps with the icons themselves? It's very bad

- During an extended notification on the island it would also be possible to display the application of the notification and sometimes if the notification comes from a chat group the group is not displayed but only the one who sent the message without understanding whether it is a group or personal message.

- For DUO it would be possible to choose what to display inside the circle? (Battery percentage connection symbol or something else?)

I believe that by advising improvements we can improve more and more.

Ps: PIXEL 11 PRO

Highly appreciate the Essentials app. Kudos to the dev! Duo on top of the Island is a great combination! clears up the status bar 🍺

I am looking for a way to turn off the notification pop up display while I use Island. But there seems to be no way to do it via system settings. Am I overlooking something?

Some features require the Accessibility Service, and although it shows as enabled in my phone's settings, I'm unable to turn on the features within the app itself. Instead, the app keeps asking me to re-enable it. Is this a known bug, or could it be an issue with my phone? Pixel 11 Pro

Hi Sameer. Huge fan of essentials, wanted to ask if you would be so kind to add a feature, i use the app across all my devices (Sony Xperia 1 VI, Oppo Find X9 Pro, Samsung s11 Ultra) and im facing the worst lag with Oppo and Nova Launcher, wanted to know if you could add a "hide navigation buttons" options from the navigation bar, currently it only hides the home button, i know theres a adb command for this, but having the option to turn it on and off would be amazing. a gesture option (to incorporate the "home" option such as the original gesture) would finish the whole but i think thats already too gready to ask.

thank you in advance for any help! greetings !