As we get closer to the launch of Android 15, more and more potential features are being discovered. Industry insider Mishaal Rahman found evidence of a new camera extension called Eyes Free to stabilize videos recorded by third-party apps.
Before that, Rahman discovered another characteristic within the Android 15 Beta 1.2 update regarding a fourth screen magnification shortcut, the “two-finger double-tap screen” in the menu.
What it does is perfectly summed up by the name: by quickly double-tapping the screen with two fingers, you can zoom in on a specific part of the screen. That is it. This may not seem like a big deal at first, but it is.
As Rahman explains, the current three magnification shortcuts are quite clunky. The first method requires you to press and hold a button on the screen, which is useful but causes your finger to obscure the view and only zoom in on the center. The second method involves pressing and holding both volume buttons, which frees up the screen but takes a moment to activate.
The third method is perhaps the best: by tapping the phone screen three times, you can zoom in on a specific area. However, doing so will slow down the Android device, so this won’t happen immediately. Interestingly enough, the triple-tap method warns people about performance degradation.
This warning is missing with the double-tap option, indicating that the zoom is almost instantaneous. When you add it all up, you can think of double-tapping as the Goldilocks option. Users can decide what they want the software to focus on without experiencing any lag.
Improved accessibility
It should be at least that fast and a marked improvement over the triple tap. Rahman says that while testing his group’s feature, they noticed a delay when zooming in. He attributes this to the unfinished state of the update, although soon after admits that the delay could simply be a part of the tool and an unavoidable situation. aspect of the software.
It will probably be a while before a more stable version of the double-tap method becomes widely available. As you recall, Rahman and his team could only view the update by manually enabling the option themselves. As far as we know, it doesn’t even work right now.
Double-tapping appears to be one of the new accessibility features coming to Android 15. There are several in the works, such as the ability to hide “unused notification channels” to help people manage alerts and forcing dark mode on apps that don’t normally do so. I don’t support it.
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