The Android quick control panel offers us, as its name suggests, access to certain modifications of the mobile settings with a few clicks on the screen: do you want to activate battery saving mode or deactivate the Bluetooth? This is the quickest way to do it.
However, the quick settings screen can also seem chaotic: options and switches are placed there in no specific order, and the more settings we add, the mess only gets worse. Android offers Radically improve the Quick Settings screen with the arrival of new categories.
Android 16 will finally put the quick settings panel in order: here’s how it will change
Google has just released the most recent version in development of its operating system for mobile devices, Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3, and among its new features is a new category system for the quick settings panelwhich divides the options on this screen into sections to make them easier to find.
This was discovered by specialist Mishaal Rahman while exploring the system app in the latest Android 15 beta, who published images of the new quick settings categories on Android Authority. Depending on the results, the quick settings panel may Divide all options into up to seven categories:
- Accessibility
- Connectivity
- Screen
- Confidentiality
- Application settings
- Unknown
- Utilities
Image: Android Authority / Mishaal Rahman
Each category includes related options or relevant, for example, privacy includes the switch to turn off GPS, accessibility includes color correction and one-handed mode, and app settings include some options offered directly by the apps we install on the mobile.
This new feature could undoubtedly significantly improve the experience when using Quick Settings on Android. Currently we have to scroll through several screens of options until we find the switch we are looking for, but with categories all the options will be in their place: if you want to turn off WiFi you can do so from the Connectivity section (although you can also automate this).
Google is working on the next evolution of the Quick Control Panel, more organized and intuitive than ever, and we expect this new feature to arrive with the next major operating system update: Android 16.
Cover photo | Pepu Ricca for Xataka Android
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