So the strategy is that. Just rotate designs and features. Take them off and put them back so people get excited again for something of the past.

Fucking Google. You ad bastards.

Fuck I don't like it. It seems like Samsung and Google got in a one night stand.

Ooh, ah, thinner sliders, background blur in quick settings.

Quit fucking around, and give us real changes. Like letting us fully disable immersive apps (I'd like to see my status bar in maps, thank you very much), fix the worthless waste of space oval quick settings, which I just stopped using because they're now useless. I went and loaded a sidebar app, because it works so much better than the now pointless quick settings.

And let users adjust a lot more stuff, like for accessibility. I can't imaging handing a new phone to someone with vision or motor issues. I hit the wrong thing all the time, and I don't have either issue.

Oh, bringing color back to the status bar, but only for Google icons? Can I please have the color back like I had, oh 15 years ago? So I know who messaged me by the color of the icon?

Keep on dumbing things down, while also making them more opaque.

They asked AI to improve the design. 😬

Yawn, smoke and mirrors when you're unable to do something useful.

They just keep making the quick action buttons worse, don't they?

I miss the Android 11 style ones, myself.

Fuck, not again..

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Can they stop? I'm tired of having to relearn how to use the same dumb system every time they come out with a new version. Even more obnoxious is how they keep moving further in a gesture direction. Stop taking away my damn buttons!

Looks like iOS.

lmao this is literally just MIUI

seriously tho why can't they just stick with one design and improve it as much as possible instead of changing everything just for the sake of change ffs

Ugh, I don't like what they've shown here. It looks like iOS, and it looks dated at that. I'm open to it looking nicer once take, but I'm not holding my breath.

The quick settings menu is one of the worst parts of android 15 visually, and it desperately needed a redesign. We're getting resizable quick actions, so now we can fit 16 settings on one page instead of 8. You can now turn Bluetooth and WiFi on/off with just one tap again. Adding settings to quick settings is easier.

More intuitive settings menu. Boring single color white/black backgrounds are now blurred wallpaper. There's a new option for displaying notifications. There's notification bar icons that are less weird, and more compact battery percentage. Sliders are a little clearer now (rounded colors was a terrible idea). We can now customize icon shapes.

Can someone explain why everyone is shitting on this? I get that people here don't like change for the sake of change, but most of these are positive, or at least neutral changes, and this fixes some gripes I've had with android.

Google designers can suck my ass with a straw. Fucking garbage gets worse every iteration

So they accidentally saw some images of winmo 10 and really said to themselves, "yeah, I'll have some of that."

Looks the same but worse. Work on bugs and efficiency instead.

"big"

i wish i could smartphone fully foss

I just want to take a screenshot without the loudest possible shutter sound which makes it appear that I'm trying to take covert photos.

I mean, surely a toggle to get rid of that nonsense should be easy? I'm sure it never used to happen a few versions ago.

The current material look is so ugly that I welcome any redesign.

That time again?

Look up in the sky, it's a bird it's a plane, it's the Funk Doctor Spock smoking buddha on a train it's a miUI, it's an iOS.

It feels too samsungy to me. Overall it seems a tiny bit better, but man just give it more wacky or intense colors from the wallpapers and avoid this flatness please. I want MORE FUN

This is why the layoffs on Google's Android team were good, and proof that they weren't deep enough.

Signed, a pissed off ex-Android developer

thanks I hate it!