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10 Great Features Of Android Pie

Android 9 Pie is around for a while now and already a handful of devices have received the update. Google has included new features starting with gesture navigation to various Artificial Intelligence feature. Android 9 Pie is currently available on Google Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Essential PH-1, OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6.1 Plus and Nokia 6.1. Except for the OnePlus 6 and 6T, all the smartphones mentioned above are stock Android out of the box which made it easy for brands to roll out the update this fast. Read to know more about the features introduced by Google with Android 9 Pie.
     10 Great Features Of Android Pie

      1. Navigation Gesture
Android uses a standard three button navigation bar at the bottom of the screen for ages. But in Pie, users can drop the standard Back, Home & Recent buttons in favor of a new gesture- based navigation system.

To do so, head to Settings>System>Gesture>Swipe up on Home button.
      2. App Actions
This feature can automatically anticipate your next action based how you manage your work. This one is truly inspired by iPhones 3D Touch.
You will have a shortcut to start Google Maps navigation to work in the morning. At work, you will see an App Action to chat with your coworker on Message bar. And when you plug in headphones, you’ll see an App Action for your most recent playlist.
      3. Enhanced Security
Under this section two major differences we observe. Firstly, as per Google, it will restrict access to mic, camera, and all sensors from apps that are idle. Simply, if you gave permission to access to any app for mic, it wouldn’t allow that permission when that app wouldn’t active.

Secondly, a newly featured lockdown mode that is for mostly emergency situations. After enabling it you can tap Lockdown on the Power menu. This instantly disables fingerprint access, smart lock hides lock screen notification too. To unlock it you must use your PIN, Password or pattern.
      4. Accessibility Menu
Enable this menu at Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Menu. Turn on the Use service slider and confirm the prompt, and you’ll see a new icon to the right of the navigation bar. Tap this anytime to bring up a large menu with shortcuts to Volume, Recent apps, Quick Settings, and more.
      5. Screenshot Shortcut
In the new Android Pie, you can take a shortcut from the Power menu at any instant.
      6. Quick Screen Rotation
In Pie, if you have turned off Auto-Rotate, you’ll see a new icon on the right side of the navigation bar when you rotate your device to landscape. Tap it to lock in landscape orientation, and it will stay even if you turn back to portrait. Just tap the icon again to rotate back to portrait.
      7. Easy Text editing
If you copy and paste more often your android device, then Pie will bless you. By long press to select text and grab the corner handles, a little magnifier will make easy to see what you are selecting for.
      8. Adaptive Battery and Brightness
Adaptive Battery is extension if Android’s Doze feature. This works by learning about the apps and services you use most often, then adjusting what you don’t use as much to use less battery.
There is cons: the apps which you don’t prefer to use more often they may have delayed notification.

Android’s automatic brightness also gets an upgrade in Pie. Now, Device will learn the brightness level you prefer more often in certain apps and environments and adjust it automatically. But you have to train it by opening the Quick Settings panel (pull down on the notification bar twice) and adjusting the brightness as needed.
     9. Dashboard
Many often we stick to our phone watching different stuffs or playing games or so on.  That is why Google introduced a bunch of features that let you control to use your device.
One of them is ‘Dashboard’ which breaks downs phone usage data to show how you spend time on your device. It displays:
  • a pie chart indicating the time spent in each app per day and also in hour by hour basis
  • total number of hours spent on the phone each day
  • number of times you unlocked your phone
  • total number of notifications you have received

      10. DND
Another gesture-based Android Pie feature called ‘Shush’ let you easier to make distance from your phone by preventing calls and notifications by enabling Do Not Disturb mode.

To activate this, just put your device screen down on the table and then you are free!

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