- To improve Android’s capabilities on laptops and tablets, Google is adding more advanced touchpad settings.
- An upcoming update introduces a customizable three-finger tap gesture for actions like launching Gemini, going home, or middle-clicking.
- Later versions will expand on this by letting you map the gesture to open any app and will also add a toggle for touchpad acceleration.
Last month, Google revealed it plans to combine Chrome OS and Android into a single platform. A key part of this transition is making Android more capable on PCs, which means improving support for peripherals like touchpads. Over the past year, Google has already introduced several enhancements like a new tutorial page and a tap and drag gesture, and it plans to add more in upcoming releases, including a customizable three-finger tap gesture and a touchpad acceleration toggle.
In the stable release of Android 16, there are currently seven options under Settings > System > Touchpad. These include: