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The first Android 12 Developer Preview has now dropped, and new features are slowly being teased and found. One of those changes is to the media resumption controls, which offers the ability to enable or disable specific apps from utilizing this quick settings section. When diving into your device Settings > Sound and vibration > Media, you will now not only be able to disable the Media…

In recent versions of Android, Google has put emphasis on improving the ability to share WiFi passwords. With Android 12, that’s now taking advantage of the new Nearby Share feature to share WiFi passwords. Like in Android 10 and Android 11, Google allows users to share WiFi passwords using a QR code or just the password they can see after using their fingerprint to verify their identity. In…

As part of the Android 12 Developer Preview 1, the lockscreen and quick settings media player has now received a very minor UI redesign to give album art a far greater prominence than currently in Android 11. Media and the associated player controls are looking like a high priority area for Google in Android 12, with Developer Preview 1 also adding the ability to enable or disable media player…

As we saw in some early screenshots, Android 12 is preparing to deliver some new privacy enhancements. While it’s not live for everyone just yet, a pair of new toggles on Android 12 allow users to disable microphone and camera access to all apps. We were able to manually enable the new privacy toggles that Google is preparing for Android 12. These toggles effectively act as master switches for…