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The first Pixel handsets to feature Always-On Display (AOD) were the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, released in 2017. As most of you know, AOD shows you time, date, battery status and some other information even when the phone is idle or locked. As useful as AOD display is for the smartphone user, it also has a major downside. An AOD display is likely to drain your phone’s battery a little faster.
To avoid draining the battery, some phones allow you to set a schedule for when the AOD feature turns on. This allows the user of the device to enjoy receiving information through AOD at certain times, while at other times when it is not needed the feature is disabled, giving the device a little extra
battery life. Unfortunately,
Pixel phones don’t have this feature. But Google Pixel is reportedly working on a way to give users more control over their AOD.
A new Android Canary build It includes many interesting pixel features One is the redesigned slider for the Pixel flashlight. The code found inside the Settings app reveals a new option for
Pixel users that allows them to turn off the Always-On display to save battery life when no user activity is detected. In case you were wondering, Android Canary is the most experimental and early channel for releasing features to the public.
In other words, it replaces “Developer Preview” as the first public step in the Android process. Android Authority A string of code was discovered in Android Canary related to a control that can turn off the AOD if there is no user activity. A string confirming that the display turns off if no activity is detected. Another strong note is that the display turns off when there is no user activity.
While you can manually disable the AOD display on your Pixel by going to Settings > Display & Touch and toggling Always-on-Display, the code discovered by Android Authority will do so automatically when there is no sign of user activity on the phone.
The strings do not tell us when the user’s pixel is considered to be in the idle state. Google may borrow Samsung’s “Auto” AOD feature that turns off the AOD display if the device is in the user’s pocket for a few minutes, or if the user is deemed asleep. Considering
Google’s interest in bringing features back to older Pixel phones, perhaps this feature, when it launches on the latest Pixel phones, will be made available for older models as well, maybe even mine.
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