Android 16 won’t require two fingers to pull down the new Quick Settings, a

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• Accessing the Quick Settings panel in Android 16 won’t require swiping down with two fingers as feared.
• Instead, you’ll only have to swipe down with one finger on the right half of the status bar.
• However, there’s still no way to swipe between the notifications and Quick Settings panels, but hopefully Google will fix that.

Back in September, I reported that Google is preparing a huge revamp of the notifications and Quick Settings panels in Android 16 that involved splitting the two panels into separate pages. One of the more controversial aspects of the revamped Quick Settings panel is that you now had to swipe down with two fingers to bring down the panel. Thankfully, though, Google is seemingly dropping this aspect of its Quick Settings redesign, meaning that Android 16 won’t require two fingers to pull down the new Quick Settings panel after all.

While digging through last month’s Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 release, I discovered several upcoming changes to Android’s notification and Quick Settings panels. These include Quick Setting tile categories that will make it easier to find the right Quick Settings tile as well as a resizable Quick Settings tile feature.




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