Android Q to focus on security and privacy along with innovation, digital wellbeing

Undoubtedly, the king of the mobile operating system, Android is being used on over 2.5 million active devices. As Google is entering the 10th version of the operating system, it is being used by over 180 device makers across the world.

Android Q brings many new features to the smartphone, right from new gesture-based navigation to Dark Theme to streaming media to hearing aids using Bluetooth LE. With data being one of the biggest concerns in today's digital age, Android Q will focus on security and privacy along with innovation and digital wellbeing. Android Q Beta is available to download for a selected 21 devices from 13 brands, including Pixel devices - Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel, and Pixel XL.

With Android Pie, Google had introduced a set of Digital Wellbeing, helping users have control of their phone's usage. App timers helped people stick to their goals over 90 per cent of the time. With Android Q, there will be a few new features. Focus mode will be the one that will help users to select distracting apps and silence to focus on what they are doing. Google also plans to make Family Link part of every device that has Digital Wellbeing (starting with Android Q), plus adding top-requested features like bonus time and the ability to set app-specific time limits.