Android 12 brings a redesigned experience

Google has shown off the new look of its mobile operating system with the upcoming Android 12 update. It's the first major revamp for the platform in years, with changes to the overall experience, colours, motion, and lights.

Android gets a new Material You design language that integrates the hardware and software further. Starting with Pixel devices, Google introduces Custom Colour Palette, allowing you to personalize your handset's look completely. But if you don't know where to start, Android will pull colours from your wallpaper and apply complementary shades throughout the operating system. You'll see it in the notification shade, the lock screen, the volume controls, new widgets, and more.

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Android 12 will bring privacy toggles to block camera, microphone with a single tap

Source: 9to5Google

With the rollout of Android 12's first Developer Preview, we're getting a glimpse at upcoming features for Google's newest mobile operating system update. One of the privacy enhancements coming to Android will be a pair of toggles that allows you to disable microphone and camera access to all apps. 

You can think of these as master switches for both the camera and microphone in your smartphone. In the preview, these toggles show up in the Quick Settings menu with the icons "Block Camera" and "Mute Microphone." 9to5Google is having some trouble using the feature, which we can probably attribute to bugs in the Developer Preview. But, at least, we know this feature is something Google is working on now.