- Google is working on a change to how the Quick Settings tiles for Internet and Bluetooth expand.
- Instead of opening up into panels that float above the Quick Settings panel, these tiles could instead expand to fill up the panel itself.
- This is similar to how the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tiles used to work from Android 5.1 through Android 8.1.
Google released the first beta of Android 16 last week, but on the surface, it doesn’t have many new features. It certainly doesn’t look any different than the previous Android release, but that’s only because Google has hidden many of the UI changes it’s working on. For example, Google is working on a total redesign of the notifications and Quick Settings panels, but you wouldn’t know that from the public beta builds. I uncovered this effort through some investigation, and while examining the first beta of Android 16, I discovered another major Quick Settings-related change that impacts how the Internet and Bluetooth tiles behave.
I previously reported in September that Google is preparing a major overhaul to notifications and Quick Settings in Android 16. Google is working to split the notifications and Quick Settings panels into two separate pages, a change that many of its OEM partners have already adopted. By splitting these panels, Android can show more notifications in the notifications panel and more tiles and buttons in Quick Settings. However, this change will mess with people’s muscle memory, though thankfully not their actual muscles as Google won’t require two fingers to pull down the new Quick Settings panel.