Google’s great idea to increase the autonomy of our smartphones

Faced with the limited autonomy of our smartphones, Android 14 in beta offers a new smart solution to reduce screen consumption and thus save precious minutes.

All means are good to gain a few minutes of autonomy on our smartphones with larger screens, but with the batteries running out in less than two days. This new featureAndroid 14 It can make a difference.

Play with the screen to increase independence

It did not escape you, it is not always easy to reach two days of autonomy with a smartphone. Despite the manufacturers’ efforts to reduce screen consumption, the latter remains the most power-hungry component. With Android 14, Google wants to use one of the characteristics of OLED panels: the black pixels are not lit. Definite advantage of independence. Technology exploited by many functions such as Always On mode (always available), which still consumes a lot of energy.

In Android 14 beta 3, the power saving mode enriched with a new one is The feature that makes the wallpaper dark compared to the rest of the interface. Thus, icons and widgets remain completely readable by standing out from the background, giving the impression of higher contrast. We see that the icons adjust their colors to this change in brightness in the background.

Although this option is only available in the beta version, there is a good chance that they will see the light of day in the final build of Android 14 expected at the end of summer.

Other new features of Android 14

In our dedicated profile, we’ve picked the best new features for Android 14 and iOS 17. There’s no revolution in sight, but tweaks that enrich the experience and solve some small issues reported by the community are welcome.

Among our favorite features of Android 14 we keep improving the Photos app in third-party apps (Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc.), as well as the beginning of the end for passwords pushed by Google.

Android 14 will also emphasize security with alerts about data sharing. Knowing that some installed applications sometimes change permissions during updates, the operating system will now notify you every 30 days of these changes. It’s enough to maintain control over the data you want to share, but also to avoid some major security breaches.

If your battery is draining very quickly, disable this feature on your smartphone

Google will also fully review health information monitoring on Android 14, thanks to its new app “HealthConnect” which will centralize all data related to your physical activity, whether it comes from your phone or your connected accessories.

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Android Police