One of the most controversial changes to Android 12 is the new power menu, which loses all of the smart home and contactless payment features it acquired last year in Android 11. In fact, those who follow the upgrade path from year to year can suffer. a little software design boost when adding and removing quickly. On some level, even Google understands that this doesn’t quite make sense (one Googler called it ‘doomed), so Android 12 Beta 3 adds a new notification that explains where everything you’ve got. depended in the past year moved.

Notice the notification at the top of the screen – which is frankly difficult to see since Google is darkening it.

The new toast-like notification appears when opening the power menu for the first time on Android 12 Beta 3 (and will likely be present on later versions as well), explaining where all these smart home checks and payments are. contactless who resumed. Android 11 switched to. Starting with Beta 2, both were relegated to Samsung-style quick settings shortcuts, a change that was both confusing for those coming to Android 11 and widely seen as a step backwards. The new notification may alleviate the initial confusion for those who are used to the “old” way, but it still doesn’t fix a change that most of our readers consider to be a mistake, and the notification itself is quite difficult to correct. read, because the background -the gradation effect also applies.

Android 11: How things used to be.

A bug filed on issue tracking for the new Power Menu UI has 434 stars and 185 comments at the time of writing, almost all of which are critical of the change. A Googler commented on it as well, reflecting at least some internal conflicts regarding the new user interface and stating unequivocally: “If this is intentional, our product is doomed.”

Although the bug has been attributed and forwarded to the development team, there has been no official response from the company regarding the change.