The Google I / O has left us with a lot of news in software with a great weight of artificial intelligence and what continues to come from Android 14 and Google Pixel 7a as the main protagonist of hardware, not because the Google Pixel Fold or the Google Pixel Tablets are not attractive is that they do not arrive in Europe at the moment. Now that the first people have been able to get their hands on it (including our colleague Iván Linares to do an exhaustive analysis), the first discoveries have appeared. Between them, a new exclusive function that until now was not present in Google phones.
What is it and what is it for? customizable alert vibration
This in particular is hidden among the long list of Google Pixel 7a settings options, in “Sound and vibration” is “Vibration and haptic technology”. The new function is called customizable alert vibration.
What exactly does the Adaptive Alert Vibration? As detailed in the description, this way of alerting who is using the phone reduces the strength of vibrations when the phone is stationary and with the screen facing up. Or what amounts to the same, that it is able to distinguish when you leave the terminal on a rigid surface like a table so as not to bother you with a strong vibration when a notification is skipped.
this option can be enabled for notifications and alarms and as you can see, it’s an optional feature. What you can’t, according to the interface, is customize the level of vibration intensity it’s reduced to, as there’s only a toggle, not a progress bar.
Google recently released a support document on how to change volume, sound and vibration settings on Pixel phones where it mentions this unique feature, but it only indicates how to activate it and not how it works.
Will it reach the rest of Pixel?
Even if the Google Pixel 7a is the only phone in the family with an adaptive vibration alertit is not the first time that we see it, although it was present in the Android 13 QPR2 Beta 1 version, but it was hidden and required a flag to be displayed.
Considering that he is a software function and has no technical or physical limitations that they limit it to the Pixel 7a, hopefully we’ll see it hit other Pixels soon.
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