Important points
- Google’s Android 16 update next year could feature resizable Quick Settings tiles, according to a hint discovered in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3.
- This feature allows users to customize the size of tiles through the quick settings editor view, with sizes such as 1×1 and 2×1.
- It’s still unclear whether this feature will debut in Android 16 next year, but users should expect an improved quick settings panel to become available.
Google released Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 a few days ago, giving us a look at what’s coming with the next big feature drop. Google likes to start working on software releases fairly early on, so it’s not unusual for QPR betas to include information about upcoming Android releases. Similarly, we recently learned that Android 16 may introduce a significantly redesigned Quick Settings panel. According to recent reports, you can also select categories to discover tiles more easily. According to a follow-up report, it has been revealed that another major feature may be added in the upcoming Quick Settings revamp. resizable tiles.
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Let’s move on to Android 15
Android expert Mishaal Rahman has found evidence highlighting the ability to resize quick settings tiles within Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 (via Android Authority). However, as Rahman points out, if you have the latest Android 15 QPR1 beta installed on your device, this new quick settings layout and resizable tiles simply won’t appear and you won’t be able to enable them. needs some tweaking.
Luckily for us, Rahman has some knowledge about enabling features hidden within the beta software and was able to give us a glimpse of the new features. As shown above, these tiles can be scaled down to 1×1, and you can mix 1×1 and 2×1 tiles.
Convenient customization options
To resize individual quick settings tiles, users must go to the editor view via the pencil icon at the bottom right of the panel. From here, just long press on the tile you want to shrink/enlarge and adjust the size accordingly. Rahman said it’s great that all tiles can be resized this way, even tiles provided by third-party apps.
For Pixel devices running Android 15, the Quick Settings panel can only provide up to 8 tiles per page, but allowing users to configure 1×1 tiles can accommodate up to 16 tiles per page. Of course, you can also reduce the size of some tiles and keep the original 2×1 size of others.
Rahman said the ability to resize quick settings tiles is still in its infancy, so it’s unclear if it will debut in Android 16 next year, as Google may decide to remove the feature from the final release. It warns that it is unknown. However, given the amount of work that’s been put into it so far, an updated quick settings panel will likely be useful.
There has already been a lot of press about Android 16, including news that Google could release Android 16 by the second quarter of 2025. Additionally, Google is believed to have codenamed Android 16 ‘Baklava’, breaking with the long-standing tradition of naming Android 16. Alphabetical software after dessert (Android 15 is the code name) vanilla ice creamAndroid 14 is over upside down cakeand so on).
