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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Those are not material icons, please don't google

hopefully these are just a test or something

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It was good while it lasted. Nearly 10 years. ⚰️

Wow. That battery looks truly terrible.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why? It's pointless but not detrimental imo.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

because it's pointless and annoying on top of all the other annoying bull crap Google has been pulling over the last 5 years.

[–] blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These look a lot like iOS status icons, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yep, specially the battery icon.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Looks a bit shit

I'd be happy if they brought back the wifi toggle instead of making me go into a settings screen

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Get ready for your Bluetooth toggle getting the same treatment...

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The new Bluetooth toggle does it right imo

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

3 taps to turn it off? It was either one or two before...

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Even Motorola thought that was dumb because I have separate toggles on my Android 13 Motorola phone, with the caveat that clicking turning off data gives me an "are you sure" prompt. I just bypass this with the airplane mode button, which is still thankfully 1 click.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The WiFi toggle is still there in quick settings (tap on the round WiFi icon, rather than the text)

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

It's a thing on most android smartphones. But, I searched and apparently you can bring that behaviour back on pixel smartphones too. Here's a YouTube video if you are on android 12/13. It may even work on android 14 https://youtu.be/KnhlC4_LbyU?si=zZPcXiQSlUbSHp8W

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ew... That is the ugliest battery icon I've ever seen. Can I just keep it the way it is now, please?

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

So change for the sake of change. The new icons are fine, and I even slightly like the revamp to the battery icon, but this is still just pointless.

Also, my near stock Android 13 phone already gives me haptic feedback when I long press the quick toggles, so this is not even a change.

[–] UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is a belated April Fool's joke, right? This looks horrendous. Like the ugly child of iOS and Samsung icons.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're finally reverting the separation of battery icon and numeric percentage? Sweet! I never liked the current implementation.

But other than that, it really doesn't look significantly different.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com -1 points 7 months ago

This has been a thing since ages on most OEM devices. AOSP is so much behind. 7 years of updates are really necessary for pixels.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wish Google would use the haptics engine more. It's been incredibly capable since the Pixel 6...

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I actually hate haptics on phones unless it's for a notification or phone call. It's always the first thing I turn off when I get a new phone. Vibrating on button presses is obnoxious to me.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Funny, I think it's used a ton and it's so ubiquitous in some situations that I forget it's even there, but immediately notice it's absence.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

The changed icons are already present on most 3rd party OEM roms. Outside of AOSP based roms hardly noteworthy. The new chip based charging indicator is a bit difficult to read but the slightly improved animation is ok.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just want the option to have my quick access icons be circular buttons and not this massive blob BS. I got pretty used to having like 20 (maybe a couple less) things that were all accessible from a single spot. It was nice.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Nope sorry, for accessibility reasons we decided these particular buttons, and only these buttons, need to have the full name as big as possible, a real-time info lines, and an absurd amount of space around them"

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And as everyone knows, the key to accessibility is not having options or variations of any kind!

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Just let me make my custom ones the default. Let Icon Pack Studio set that.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago

No no please no