The little green dot in the Notification bar is a handy Privacy Indicator, letting you know that some app is accessing your ...

Here we’ll guide you through some of the best apps for hacking the status bar on your Android device, and what they can do for you. It’s possible to turn the status bar into a volume ...

The Android status bar is the strip of icons running across the top of your screen. The top right corner is where you'll see most of these icons, while the top left corner is mostly reserved for ...

Haptics: Rahman also reports that Google is adding more haptic feedback to actions throughout the status bar in Android 15. For example, should a user long press a tile, your phone will vibrate as ...

Android 15 may revamp the status bar icons for Wi-Fi, mobile data, and battery as well as add haptic feedback to Quick Settings.

As spotted by Android Authority, a latent experiment in Android 15 swaps out the existing notification icons in the status bar for ones that match what you’d find on the homescreen.

Having notification icons in the status bar is one of Android’s advantages. That is not something iOS offers, and it’s a really neat feature to have. You can always glance at the status bar to ...

Months passed by with no signs of the new status bar icons, even though the other changes we spotted—the haptic feedback for the Quick Settings panel and volume slider—landed in the stable ...

The status bar and battery icon changes are present in the beta, but they're hidden. Their official release in Android 16 is not confirmed, and they may appear in a later update or even Android 17.