A mobile phone is a window that allows us to access all kinds of things: from a calculator to our bank account, including hundreds of additional things. But in this window, there are other very useful windows, some that allow us to have much more at hand. We refer to widgets, some who They are about to emigrate to another area.
Currently, whatever the Android phone we have, we can modify and move our widgets as we want, But always on the home screen. Google wants to give the user more freedom and announced that these tools will be available elsewhere when Android 16 will arrive.
Android 16 Bring widgets to the lock screen
Having widgets on the lock screen is not entirely new. As the penis explains, this possibility has been present on Pixel tablets since last year, but now Google wants them to also reach other devices with its operating system. In addition, the idea is not that it reaches some widgets, But it is compatible with everyone by default (As long as the developer wishes).
As the company explains itself, the widgets will be on the locking screen and will allow us to have all kinds of information at hand No need to unlock the phone. Of course, we must take into account that there will be certain widgets which will force us to use the fingerprint, a pine code or a biometric unlocking method.
The widgets of the lock screen will arrive in the first quarterly update after the launch of Android 16, which is still in beta. In fact, curiously, This new function is now available in the same. It was Android Authority who managed to access it, showing the result in a video.
Imagen: Android Authority
Now it should be mentioned that the function It does not yet seem well implemented In the Android Beta 16. For the moment, to access the widgets on the lock screen, it is necessary that the loaded phone (because they are only available in screen protector mode).
A point where it differs with the implementation of these widgets on pixel tablets is that the grid is smaller, reducing the size of the lines from two to a. Anyway, this is excellent news that allows users to have much more information on all kinds … without touching everything.
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