More personal, safe and effortless than ever before
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A n d r o i d 12
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Our most personal OS yet.
Android 12 is our most personal OS ever, featuring dynamic colour capabilities that can transform your experience based on your wallpaper and responsive motion that responds to your touch. Even the widgets have been given a facelift, with your favourite people always available right there on your home screen. And with a more spacious redesign, colour contrast optimisations and new features to help those with low vision, Android 12 is designed to be
accessible for even more users.
A boundary-pushing redesign.
Android 12 rethinks the entire user interface, from shapes, light and motion, to customisable system colours that can be adapted to match you. Redesigned to be more spacious and comfortable, it’s our most expressive, dynamic and personal OS ever.
Colour reimagined.
Change your wallpaper on your Pixel and your entire Android 12 experience changes to match. Using advanced colour extraction algorithms you can easily personalise the look and feel of your entire phone, including notifications, settings, widgets and even select apps.
A smoother, more responsive UI.
Your favourite people have a new home.
An all-new conversation widget puts the conversations with the people that you care about front and centre on your home screen so that you never miss a chat from your loved ones. You can even see missed calls, birthdays and more at a glance.
Built for accessibility.
Android 12 is designed to be even more accessible with new visibility features, including:
Area magnification
A new window magnifier lets you zoom in on a part of your screen without having to lose context on the rest of the screen content.
Extra dim
Make your display extra dim for night-time scrolling or situations when even the lowest brightness setting is too bright.
Bold text
See text more clearly with the ability to switch the font to bold across the whole phone.
Greyscale
Adjust how colours display on your device to greyscale.
Private by design so that you’re in control.
Android 12 is designed for your safety. With new easy-to-use, powerful privacy features, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that you have control over who can see your data and when.
Stronger mic and camera access controls
Keep your precise location private.
While some apps need precise location information for tasks like turn-by-turn navigation, many other apps only need your approximate location to be helpful. With Android 2, you can choose between giving apps access to your precise location or an approximate location instead.
Your privacy permissions at a glance.
Privacy dashboard gives you a clear and comprehensive view of when apps access your location, camera or mic over the past 24 hours. If you see anything that you’re not comfortable with, you can manage permissions directly from the dashboard.
Protect sensitive data in the Private Compute Core.
Everything on your phone just got easier.
Android 12 makes everything on your phone effortless and easy. You can get into gameplay without having to wait for a full download, and even transfer your data onto a new Android phone without any hassle.
Kick-start your gameplay.
Spend less time waiting and more time playing. Android 12 lets you play as you download, so you can jump straight into gameplay without needing to wait for the full download to finish.
You can also select your game mode for performance or battery life, whether you want a richer gaming experience or longer play session.
Extend screenshots beyond your screen.
Switching made easy.
It’s never been easier to switch to Android and try out the best device for you. Starting on Android 12, you can transfer all your essentials by connecting your old phone to your new Android with a cable or shared Wi-Fi connection. Your memories and data will transfer, stress-free – even from iPhone® (welcome!).