Android status bar indicators reveal which apps use your camera, mic, location, and clipboard. Learn what the dots mean and ...

What are apps doing behind your back?

Google might be changing up the designs of status bar icons in Android 15. The design of these status bar icons hasn’t changed for a long time. The new OS may also add haptic feedback to the Quick ...

Google is working on new Android status bar settings to let users hide the upcoming Android Halo icon and the mute indicator.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Android 15 is getting closer, and we are still discovering new information about this next iteration of Android. As discovered by noted Android engineer Mishaal Rahmen, a part of Android that has been ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Android users haven’t had a major change to the status bar in a number of years. With exception to front-facing cameras being placed in the middle of them, I’m more so referring to the icons you see ...

Why no one is using it?

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra posed on table showing "N" icon on status bar - Max Miller/SlashGear Learning to master your smartphone involves memorizing a range of icons, which can be confusing to the ...