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Privacy is a big focus of Android 12, and one of the ways that Google is addressing it is with better notification of sensor usage. While it’s not live quite yet, we’ve discovered that Android 12 is working on a more obvious location indicator that matches what’s been changed with the camera and microphone. Quickly recapping what we’ve seen so far, previous Android 12 Beta releases added…

If you are not content with the most recent Android 12 Developer Preview or Beta build on your Google Pixel, it’s probably music to your ears knowing that you can downgrade your OS to a stable version of Android 11 if you encounter any major problems. We’ve shown you how to install the Android 12 Beta or Developer Preview phase, so it’s only fair that we show you how to downgrade from…

Android 12 brings a lot of visual changes with it and, now, the out-of-box-experience is being updated to match. With Android 12 Beta 3, Google is giving a fresh coat of paint to the setup experience on Pixel phones. A new setup experience present in Android 12 Beta 3 gives a mostly visual refresh to the setup experience that we’ll see on Pixel phones going forward. The experience will surely…