Android 15 could have a new screen feature to keep you doomscrolling in bed

Notification improvements are incoming, too

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We’re gradually hearing more and more aboutAndroid 15and what features it’ll bring – including onesGooglehasn’t announced yet – and new leaks point to changes in display settings and notification management.

Some code digging by Mishaal Rahman atAndroid Authorityhas revealed a new extra, extra dim setting for the screen. This would in theory make it more comfortable to look at your phone in bed at night, or in any particularly dark setting.

Android can already adapt screen brightness to the light levels of the surrounding environment, and there’s already an accessibility feature called “extra dim” that reduces the glare of bright colors that can be toggled on and off.

The new “even dimmer” feature would be on top of that and is perhaps designed to be turned on permanently. It’s for “extending the brightness below [the] traditional range” according to the hidden code. The thinking is that it’d work in tandem with adaptive brightness for those times when you’re in situations with very little ambient light.

Hiding notification channels

Android 15 will make it easier to deal with notification clutter by hiding unused notification channels by default!With this change, the Settings app now only shows me 3 channels from Instagram instead of 25.More details in my latest article 👇https://t.co/ott7kbCi9QApril 22, 2024

As for notifications, once again we’re indebted to Mishaal Rahman atAndroid Authorityfor discovering a new setting for hiding unused notification channels, which should make it easier to manage the alerts you get from your apps.

In Android at the moment, apps can be set to show some notifications but not others – so you might want to know aboutWhatsAppcalls but not WhatsApp messages, for example. However, how granular these options are is partly down to the developers.

It looks as though Android 15 will hide unused notification channels, so you don’t have to spend a long time scrolling through less important channels to find the notification setting you want. It’s not a huge change, but it makes life a little bit easier for users.

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We also expect to see astorage health checker,NFC wireless charging, andsatellite messaging improvementswhen Android 15 appears – and you cantry the beta now. Google is likely to tell us much more about the upcoming software update at its Google I/O 2024 event, whichstarts on May 14.

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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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