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Overview
- Keeps the UI of 5.0, and adds a bunch of new features. This is great, because material design is beautiful.
- Now on Tap
- Removal of swipe up to Now/listening
- Doesn’t seem useful most of the time; it’s a neat shortcut, but more of a peripheral feature
- I wish they had left the swipe up gesture, so you could choose at any time if you wanted to do Now on Tap or go straight to your Now Cards
- App permissions
- Many Google apps are asking for permission first, which is great
- It will take a long time to get many major apps (Facebook, Instagram, et al) to participate
- I have been experimenting with revoking permissions to various apps, including apps that have not been updated to fit the new permissions system. I am not sure if I have broken anything yet.
- Do not Disturb
- Total silence
- Much better placement in the quick settings area
- Volume control
- Still no visual toggle for volume in quick settings
- System UI Tuner
- Tune your quick settings
- Remove some of the clutter in the status bar
- “Demo mode” is hilarious. 6:00!
- Great start, needs more
- SD card: adaptable
- Sure, if any Nexus phone had SD support
- This feature will be a godsend to people with 16GB devices with expandable storage
- Text selection
- Better, needs finer controls anyway, possibly included in a coincidental tablet update
- Everyone says Google “fixed” it because they use words now instead of icons.
- I do not like that “Select All” has been hidden in the overflow menu. When I select text, most times I want to select all, then copy it.
- Battery
- Doze
- I will have more to say about this once the SHIELD tablet updates to 6.0; that device spends most of the day sitting on my bedside table.
- App Standby
- But wakelocks are still rampant in first party and third party apps
- Lock screen: voice search replaced the phone
- Best change ever, sort of
- If you use that, there are some voice commands that will tell you “Actually, I can’t do that while the device is locked. To keep going, unlock your device.” even if SmartLock has the device unlocked.
- Memory section in settings
- Great
- Now show what part of Android Account Manager and Google Play services is screwing me over
- Shows average memory usage over the last 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours.
- Bolder clock on lock screen
- Beautiful Roboto Mono: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto+Mono
