Android 10, just launched this week, has started to roll out to Google Pixel smartphones, with availability for other supported Android smartphones coming soon. What is new in Android 10? Here’s a quick look.

The first thing to know well-nigh Android 10 is that there is no dessert codename. Unlike all previous versions, such as Android 9 Pie, which had some dessert name tying to the version, Google has an all-new naming institute starting from version 10, which is that there are no names, and not plane letters. Android 10 is simply, 10. Do you miss the dessert names?

There are a number of new features and changes to Android 10, though nothing earth-shattering. Mobile operating systems, be it Android or iOS, has reached a level of stability that major version updates are mostly evolutionary in nature.

Android 10’s new Visionless Mode might be a full-length that excite some users, seeing how visionless themes have wilt quite a trend these few years. You can go to Settings, Display, and toggle on Visionless Theme. I don’t not like visionless theme, but I don’t like that the theme is not something integrated wideness all the apps, not plane Google’s own apps. It is very jarring, at least to me, to navigate from one screen that is dark-themed to flipside that is light-themed.

A new Focus Mode in Android 10 helps you disconnect from your phone. This full-length is part of Digital Wellbeing beta, so you need to make sure you’re signed up for the programme. Digital Wellbeing once brought Wind Down, Night Light, and Do Not Disturb, among other things. The new Focus Mode adds on the worthiness to pause apps, such as Facebook, so you won’t get distractions.

Perhaps one tomfool full-length is Live Caption, a full-length that automatically provides captions to videos, podcasts, and audio messages wideness any app with just a single tap. This full-length is enabled or disabled under Accessibility settings. Captions are useful plane for people who can hear well; I can see myself using this when I need to “listen” to audio without unquestionably wanting sound to be vociferously heard.

For people concerned well-nigh privacy, Android 10 offers scrutinizingly 50 changes related to privacy and security, including the following:

  • Additional location controls and reminders – largest manage your location settings;
  • Dedicated Privacy section under Settings – manage important privacy controls in one place;
  • Security Updates slantingly Google Play system updates – get important security updates in the preliminaries without having to wait for a full OS update.

If you have a Pixel smartphone, trammels your system updates to get Android 10 today.

Find out increasingly well-nigh Android 10 at Google’s blog post.