Google may redesign the volume UI in Android 16, and here’s a first look

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• Google is working on a new design for Android’s volume slider and volume panel.
• The new design ditches the thick, pill-shaped sliders in favor of thinner, continuous sliders with handles.
• We don’t know when this new design will launch, but we presume it will appear in the Android 16 update.

Google will release Android 16 later this year. Android 16 will be the next major version of Android, and although we’ve already seen two developer previews for it, there’s still much we don’t know about what’s included in the update. I’ve been examining every Android build Google has released so far and have found enough evidence to suggest that Google is preparing major UI changes for Android 16. These include not only changes to the Quick Settings/notifications panels but also to the volume panel and volume slider.

When Android 15 was released last year, it introduced a big redesign to the volume panel that made it collapsible. The new volume panel featured much thicker, pill-shaped sliders, a dot at the end of each slider, and tappable icons to quickly mute individual volume streams. It also swapped the “sound & vibration” header up top with a persistent media output shortcut and made the stream-name text move along with the slider.




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