The time icon can be similarly be hidden, or shown in minutes, hours, and seconds, or just in hours and minutes. You can choose to show the percentage of battery remaining, the percentage left to charge, or hide both percentages from view. There are slightly more granular options for the battery and time indicators. Don’t want anything but notifications in your status bar? You can do that, too. Tapping each individual setting removes them from your status bar. When you’re in the Tuner, you’ll see toggles for Auto-rotate screen, Hotspot, and Volume.
Once it starts animating, the System UI Tuner will be unlocked, allowing you to access customization options at the bottom of your Settings menu. It’s as simple as pulling down the notification drawer and tapping and holding the gear icon in the top-right corner.
It’s the top-most area you of the display that shows incoming notifications and details like battery status, Wi-Fi and data connectivity, the time, and more, and Android 7.1 lets you customize its appearance via the System UI Tuner. Trigger System UI Tuner Julian Chokkattu/Digital TrendsĪndroid Nougat is all about more control - like changing how your status bar, for example.
It adds a Night Mode tile to the Quick Settings drawer on compatible devices, and automatically toggles Night Mode on after sunset and off after sunrise.
If you’re coming from an older version of Android, though, you’ll need to download this app - Night Mode Enabler. If you enrolled in the Android beta program, you likely had a tile for Night Mode in the notification drawer that lets you turn it on and off whenever you want. Problem is, enabling Night Mode’s isn’t exactly a walk in the park. And in addition to displaying warmer tones, the Settings app also swaps its typically bright color pallete for a darker alternative so that you’re not blinded when you open it in the dark. It’s better if you want to get a good night’s sleep - viewing devices emitting blue light at late hours can have serious health effects. And ScreenFilter adds a customizable filter that suppresses colors.Īndroid Nougat’s other big add is an experimental Night Mode that automatically switches the display’s color calibration to remove blue hues. Camera Quick Settings tile lets you instantly shoot a selfie with the front cam or a photo with the rear cam. Caffeinate, for example, keeps the display on for a few mintues longer than the default setting.
Thanks to Nougat’s Quick Settings API, you can install third-party apps that add new shortcuts to the fore. You can do the same thing to the other tiles to rearrange their position. If you don’t use the Hotspot tile, for example, you can remove it by tapping the Edit button on the bottom right of the drawer, pressing and holding the tile, and dragging it until it disappears from view. Unlike the older, static iteration of Android versions past, the new notification window lets you hide the settings tiles you don’t use all that often. One of the most significant changes to Android Nougat involves the Quick Settings and notification shade. Fitbit Versa 3Įdit tiles in the notification drawer and enable night mode