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Android 16 might give the volume UI a visually refreshing new look


Google might slim down the volume sliders with sleek handles in the next Android release.

The Android 16 beta is expected to arrive in the next few months, and Google appears to be cooking up a few changes, including a fresh volume control design. Google is aiming for a cleaner look, where a vertical bar shows the slider’s position, with one side darkened and the other left blank. This kind of uncertainty is pretty common early in Android’s development, since Google often experiments with UI ideas that don’t always make it to the final version.

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