Allison Johnson

Android whisperer Mishaal Rahman has a thorough writeup for Android Authority detailing some of the potential UI changes he’s found under the hood in Android 16’s beta releases. One that caught my eye: the ability to resize quick settings tiles and a new tile editor organized by category, which is all very iOS 18. There are other visual changes afoot too, like more use of background blur on screens like the app drawer and the multitasking view. No doubt we’ll find out more soon.

That’s according to Soniya Jobanputra, a product management director for the Pixel series. Google’s new blog post highlights some of the behind-the-scenes thinking on the Pixel 9A’s redesign, and there are some interesting tidbits in there about the new camera bar and iris color option, which is apparently inspired by the Pixel 3A’s “purple-ish” hue. Now bring back the contrasting colored power button, you cowards.