Android 16 DP1 integrates Extra Dim into the brightness bar
 

• Android 16 DP1 introduces a new setting called Even Dimmer that allows the screen to be dimmed below what the lowest level of the brightness slider usually allows.
• Even Dimmer is integrated into the brightness bar as opposed to Extra Dim which has to be manually toggled.
• Interestingly, only the regular Pixel 9 has the Even Dimmer feature in Android 16 DP1.

The first developer preview of Android 16 is already here, and as usual, it has new features and changes that Google didn’t highlight in its announcement. We’ve been digging through the new release to document these changes, and we’ve already found a couple of things — mostly features we’ve already leaked in the past. One such feature we discovered in Android 16 Developer Preview 1 is called Even Dimmer, and it’s basically a more integrated version of Android’s existing Extra Dim mode.

We first spotted work on this Even Dimmer feature in one of the early preview builds of Android 15, but we originally weren’t sure how it would work. When the second beta for Android 15 QPR1 came around, though, we not only managed to fully activate the Even Dimmer feature but also confirmed how it would operate.




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