Google continues revamping ‘Do Not Disturb’ for Android 16 with new ‘Modes’

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• We have more details on Google’s efforts to revamp the Do Not Disturb mode in next year’s Android 16 update.
• In the latest Android beta, we’ve discovered that the in-development feature is no longer called Priority Modes but instead just Modes.
• In addition, we’ve discovered that Android will display the individual icon for any Modes you enable on the status bar, lock screen, and AOD.

Development on the next major release of Android, ie. Android 16, is well underway, but since we’re more than half a year away from its stable release, a lot of its new features aren’t ready yet. However, we can get a glimpse at some of Android 16’s new features by poking around in the Android beta releases that Google pushes out. Following the release of yet another new Android beta earlier today, we managed to uncover even more details on one of the biggest new features in Android 16: Modes.

Modes is the new name of the Priority Modes feature that we thoroughly documented earlier this month. This upcoming feature is basically a supercharged version of Android’s Do Not Disturb mode. The reason the Do Not Disturb mode needs to be overhauled is that it’s pretty limited right now. You can either activate it manually or set it to activate between certain times or during certain calendar events from a specific calendar. If you want to set multiple schedules based on other times or calendars, though, then you have to modify the mode every single time. You can’t just create another copy of Do Not Disturb mode with its own settings. That’s what the new Modes feature in Android 16 will solve, thankfully.




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