Android 15 is a big deal ✨

[@Cartidise]

I came here for some actual Android 15 features but I am disappointed with all the AI fuss 💀

[@Marcuschanged]

😂😂😂 it's more than Ai but Ai is Google theme

[@rythmater]

Look through the AOSP commit logs if you want to see what ships in Android 15.

[@Chaundb]

So basically security and Ai improvements. Nothing that makes the OS / Ui fun and interesting........

Yeah.... Updates for the past couple of years have been pretty meh.

[@cloudxenogear]

So most probably it will be a boring update

[@alejandrokeller9912]

It is fun already.

[@Vikram-21]

It's boring since Android 10

[@TimberWulfIsHere]

Yea at this point xda may as well have sold out to google

[@beefgoat80]

I scroll straight past Google's AI search results. Every time.

[@alexwelch7198]

Lol I disabled them day 1

[@viranijoush]

But some queries its really useful. There are different use case scenarios.

[@Udrgjitfcssgjoug]

Honestly as a student I find that extremely useful. I don't have to scroll around websites for an answer. Its just there summarised for me. And 97 percent of the time it's right

[@docpratham99]

AI search results are the best

[@sirgreen2792]

​@@Udrgjitfcssgjougtotally agree. I realized that people are gonna hate, not for any logical reason but just because they can.

[@AtPlume]

It's sad and worrying to see that AOSP is getting less and less of these features. More and more, these new "Android features" are "Pixel" features. I don't care about AI features, I don't, if I get a phone with them, the first thing I'll do is immediatly turn off as much of that stuff off. Once you take all of the AI and Pixel exclusive stuff off of the table, what's left? Not much. It's a basic release, with very few things added to Android and/or AOSP as a whole. As was Android 14. As was Android 13.

[@kosztaz87]

I think it's just a sign how mature Android is now. I honestly can't think any major missing feature on it. And I am totally with you on "AI", I will disable that feature as soon as it will start infecting my phone. Luckily my phone shouldn't get Android 15 update, so I think I will be fine.

[@LindonSlaght]

I'd say maybe more stability but let's be real this is google. They're gonna fuck it up somehow. What I'd like to see is some more comprehensive OS level SD card support instead of leaving it to manufacturers 🤡it's external storage bro it's not that complicated. Or atleast it shouldn't be when you're making the worlds most popular OS.

[@LindonSlaght]

@@kosztaz87 same here but I'm gonna get a new phone at some point I know it's inevitable... LG v60 user here

[@AtPlume]

@@LindonSlaght V60?! I wasn't aware they made a lot more of these. I had a v20 for a while, it went to shit for various reasons but damn I loved that phone.

[@kosztaz87]

@@LindonSlaght I use a Sony Xperia, they still have headphone jack and SD card support even on their flagship devices. Check them out, I think they are the closest brand to what LG used to offer. Their pricing is insane though, you have to wait for Black Friday or some other deal, as out of the gate they are very overpriced.

[@ClaxtonBay123]

Perfect timing! Literally looking for your videos yesterday. And after searching for your name on KZbin I just got decade old content. Forgot you were at XDA.

[@SGSpace]

Google hasn't done anything special for years. Except Material UI & Introducing some privacy settings in installments. Android OS still lacks some basic features & improvements. e.g 1) It doesn't need hardware resources like Desktop PC but OS Optimisation. 2) We have to install third party Apps or plugins for basic tasks e.g. Backing up & restoring all data in new Phone, view Real Time Network Speed, Shortcuts etc. There are some stocks app (like media player) they are not very useful even lacks basic features & settings. 3) We can't restrict third party apps to using network. This makes Privacy Permissions powerless.

[@arkvsi8142]

In Oneplus and Xiaomi...you can remove internet acces from apps, even some system apps. I disabled internet access for google play services.

[@decebaltrandafir]

​@@arkvsi8142 Can you block wifi for all BBK and Xiaomi spywares? I guess not. Lol...

[@pattycarljackson]

No company has done anything “special” including Samsung. Phones are meant for texting, calling, browsing the web and using apps and some other things in between, not sure what you or others expect. People want “ fun and interesting” then go to Samsung even though it’s full of bloatware and has settings for settings and has too much junk just to do certain things.

[@SGSpace]

@@pattycarljackson You didn't get the comment. These are basic needs. I don't know why this comment has triggered you? There is nothing permanent except 'Change'. It's the reason people have witnessed journey from landlines to smartphones.

[@f.m.f962]

I feel like you're kinda missing the point of having an "Android" OS...

[@brokenthrone01]

Nah, it's Android 13.2

[@zekiz774]

More like Android 12.3

[@naryhd]

trust? google? two opposite words 😅

[@Jack908r]

Whats that old meme? Google - we take and sell your data. Apple - we pretend to not take and sell your data. lol

[@LindonSlaght]

@@Jack908r Both can be true. Tbh if google's gonna be shoving this AI crap down our throats I might be forced to degoogle cause I am SO not interested. However I do want a new phone. Thank god for adb and root.

[@Neuvalence]

​@@Jack908r aint even just data, im so salty about how they randomly kill products. so many of them had potential... + they had a huge team of geniuses prior to layoffs. how is it such a mess

[@FidelF]

​@@Jack908r a small correction, Google doesn't sell your data. They sell the fact that they have your data and can target specifically you for the needs/wants you have, because they have your data lol. What would be the point of selling the data?

[@ADeeSHUPA]

​@@FidelF 笑 笑 حَى حَى

[@NameGueSapeYe]

Will Gemini rewrite my browsing history?

[@sambitdas9416]

Opera does that

[@debagniksen7809]

In an era where we should start gaining more control on ourselves, we are ending up giving more control to the computer. Scary times ahead

[@yumni45]

The only thing I'm kinda excited for is edge to edge enforcement and that's it

[@WheelerKyle]

My Pixel 4 with Android 13 also got Gemini!

[@bankruptsee]

More sophisticated spyware for google

[@livbyrana]

The new update is just AI nonsense, most of which would only be Pixel exclusive. They don't care about other Android phones.

[@Gary0557]

Anyone know when the Gemini app will be available here in the UK? At the moment we have to use the web version.

[@michaelball93]

Yeah, it's weird that the narrator is British and he's talking about things which aren't available in his country like they're available to everyone.

[@xenon6947]

When GCHQ has its backdoor.

[@michaelball93]

@@somethingelse1987 Weirdly enough, I summoned Assistant the other day and got a popup asking me to try Gemini. So now I have the app. It still doesn't appear in my Messages app though.

[@DavidSettonPersonal]

samsung has has had private space through secure folder for a long time.

[@marcelinoverazanidesouza]

Indeed, Privace Space was inspired on Samsung's approach. It will be "universal" now

[@LindonSlaght]

LG had the audio switched in notification shade before samsung but you don't hear people talking about that. Of course that's a small thing but there are more examples. All I'm tryna say is no one cares companies copy eachother all the time that's just business.

[@JustAnotherYou2ber]

with the caveat that you have to be signed into your Samsung account to actually use it

[@nurarihyon07]

my 7 year old lenovo k3 note had that, they are just reintroducing old stuff and saying as if they invented new shit.

[@Antagon666]

Idk if latest android is always better. They pretty much lock down the phones a tiny bit more with each update, making some tasks like flashing, rooting etc. much more difficult, if not impossible. Soon we will get Apple level of freedom.

[@PauL-tr1mn]

I've been saying this for some time. Apple is becoming more -androidish- while droid is becoming more and more conservative. Still none of them are there but...

[@anupamkumar7083]

Who tf uses these ai features?

[@kosztaz87]

Brain-dead consumers, aka 90% of the population.

[@ac130kz]

AI AI AI AI, useless

[@marcp4514]

But Gemini can't do basic Assistant functions. I would much rather be able to set reminders, send a message, take a note than any of the AI stuff.

[@Mark-sz6mq]

Actually Gemini can do that and a lot more.

[@marcp4514]

@@Mark-sz6mq Just reinstalled. It can now send a text. It says it will do reminders if I add an extension, but f that. It still cannot take a note. Or add things to my grocery list. Or run any of my assistant routines. So improving but still half-baked and not viable replacement since I care entirely about what assistant can do and nothing for what gemini can do.

[@Mark-sz6mq]

@@marcp4514 honestly, I don't know what you're doing because not only can I do what you're saying you can't do but I can have it. Write an email for me in a specific category like write an email to my boss on why I can't come into work today and it will give you more than one option to choose from. It can write letters for you. It could send emails for you. It can do everything that Assistant could do but on steroids. Do some deep diving into Gemini man and ask anything you want. Anything that you can think of and watch how impressed you will be.

[@marcp4514]

​@@Mark-sz6mq​ With gemini installed, if i say "Hey Google, set a reminder at 9pm to call mom" it tells it cannot do that without installing an extension to google work. If i say "Hey Google, take a note" it tells it cannot take a note and gives me search results on note taking apps. If i say "Hey Google, add milk to my grocery list" it tells me it cannot do that. If I say "Hey Google, good morning (one of my assistant routines)" it told me that it is actually evening and that Good Evening would be a better greeting at this time. It did compose and send a text message, but it failed three of the four most common things I do with assistant.

[@marcp4514]

@@Mark-sz6mq It can send a text. If I say "Hey Google, set a reminder to do X at Y time" it tells me it can't do that without an extension for google work. If i say "Hey Google, add milk to my grocery list" it tells me it cannot do that and give me suggestions on how to make a list. If I say "Hey Google, play music in the bedroom (sonos speaker)", it tells me it cannot do that. If I say "Hey Google, take a note." It gives me search results for note taking apps. If I say "Hey Google, good morning (to launch one of my routines" it tells me that it is evening and Good Evening would be a better greeting. If I say "Hey Google, turn on office lamp (connected to google home)" it gives me search results for office lamps. So other than texting (maybe calling, i did not test that), it fails every other of my primary tasks I use Assistant to do. So it is useless for me. I do not want an Assistant to write things for me. I could not care less about generative AI. If Gemini cannot do 100% of things Assistant can do (that I need), then I will never replace Assistant and when Google finally kills Assistant (like they have with so many other services that already just work), then I will move on from Google phones.

[@gameguruz742]

If Android really wants to keep the ecosystem alive they should make those feature available to all android devices and not just pixel device only

[@k1vd03_2]

Android 15 is a big deal ..... no it isn't.

[@YattirSmith]

It's a big deal for google not so much for us

[@shubhamgangwe]

Gemini is worst as of now. They replaced assistant to gemini on my s23 ultra and I can't even do simple tasks like set an alarm or add a reminder by voice command. Why do they have to keep making things worst by updates?

[@mikldude9376]

So when can we expect android 15 ? I’m guessing it will roll out at different times for different devices? I have a pixel 8 pro.

[@TheChazas]

with Pixel 9 release, or week or two before.

[@DifferentThinker]

I switched back to google assistant from gemini... As an assistant gemini is not so far successful yet😐

[@ExOccult]

No, we need backwards compatibility. There's a bunch of apps I can't use anymore that are on the app store or they need to update all the apps force update them

[@tomeik1421]

What a great way for google to worm his way into everything you do without them knowing it

[@JanBadertscher]

Gemini as default Assistant on Android right now: "Hey Google, turn on the table light and then turn off the sofa light" "Sorry, I can't interact with physical objects..." But works fine when doing one task at a time: "Hey Google, turn on the table light" works fine.

[@tylerrapps3130]

I have Google Gemini on my Samsung S24 Plus and I use it mostly everyday. Android 15 and AI is the futer

[@albioncia]

Android version update isnt interesting because oem will put their own skin and features on it anyway and the feature that makes newer android version differemt than a previous one is already on those oem skin or lost because of the skin

[@seanburns1972]

I’ll be glad when Google finally gets rid of the UI stutter on Android 14 with Android 15 which they have said they have a fix for it. Whilst I love the Pixel 8 Pro it often stutters a lot

[@fantasytky28]

while google during android 15, ops we cant resolve it, lets see you in android 16, keep the shit we created to your self in the mean time

[@PhatBoyzClub]

The most basic feature color saturation and color correction are still not on android. So if you get a bad amoled screen with no vibrance your out of luck in countries that don't allow replacements. Or you root and loose warranty. No gaming features, built in controller mapping, no streamer mode to stream with your front cam on. No video input requirements so you basically dump your old tablet after a year or 2 and have no use for it unless you use a latency riddled capture card to use it as a monitor. Its not a big deal its the same deal.

[@Yong130]

How about a color icon notification? That be awesome! For example, like a Instagram notication (instead a black and white small incon, why not make it a color Instagram icon and have an option to blink when you have a new notificaiton? That be sweet!!!

[@arkvsi8142]

Im not updating to A15........

[@aurathedraak7909]

Come back to the comment in the future and Google Assistant will be axed from Google, as ai would replace it Just you watch

[@Jack908r]

Gemini, telling me the weather even better than assistant. lol I would honestly just prefer better google calendar widgets, and get my podcast app back.

[@Nubrigtube]

I never understood the need to churn out a new os every year on the dot. Just develop things and if they get piled up to the point that it warrants an overhaul or simply feels way too different than the current OS then release it as a new version. I mean AI and security updates are ok but..

[@NetvoTV]

Can Sony Xperia 1 VI has Gemini do the Apple Intelligence thing that it can correct your sentences, find and plan stuffs base on your data and so on?

[@Gary0557]

Just call screen unknown callers. They usually hang up as soon as they know your using a Google screen service. Google sometimes intercepts my spam calls even before the phone rings and sends me a message that they blocked it.

[@andrewhill8840]

So all those ok Google Assistant devices are for the land fill than!

[@LindonSlaght]

lol they will be unless google issues an OTA. Which they probably won't because like most sane companies google likes money lol.

[@11Reza]

Fixing the UI/UX can't be harder than creating an AI. personally i don't wanna switch to iOS but there are always small glitches or bugs and lags with android phones which is annoying. And how hard is it to fix that ugly and unnecessary navigation bar.

[@sudhakar7889]

They give you other gestures as well.

[@ravitejaknts]

​@@sudhakar7889what other gestures u r talking about?

[@592Johno]

​@@ravitejakntscircle to search? I've been using the hell out that feature since it dropped. Super handy to translate text on the fly and other stuff

[@zekiz774]

Which ugly and unnecessary navigation bar? I actually use the top bar every day and it’s very useful to me

[@ravitejaknts]

@@zekiz774 i guess he is talking about the bottom bar that you use for navigation. Some apps are not optimised for that bar. So he might be complaining about it.

[@razoado8557]

Hello, is there a way to change the notification dot on a Pixel to display the number of unread messages instead?

[@1372sbavert]

Use a different launcher

[@roberttranceedm]

LLMs are not AI! Stop bandwagoning!

[@aryanagrawal5329]

Ok now you will teach Google what to call and not to call

[@roberttranceedm]

@@aryanagrawal5329 LLMs are okay at pattern recognition with some statistical analysis, but they lack true understanding of the data they process. They can't reason logically, draw meaningful conclusions, or grasp the nuances of context and intent.

[@joseantoniomaresarrieta6667]

99% of the things that are marketed as AI are not really AI, but they are still components of it. ML is not AI, OCR and OMR are not, and the list goes on... But since they are techniques used for it, and are really the anablers of it, they are AI too. Marketing is and always will be for average customer, and average customer sees all of those terms as balck magic, heck even us (devs and IT people) see them as black magic too.

[@thetechrealist]

So 1-2 medium sized features & the rest are small tiny footnotes?… Disappointing…

[@carinoavatar]

Better Instagram integration..No...

[@AshishGuptaci2dg]

Thanks for you time bro ❤❤

[@albundy06]

No it's not. Android 15 is a yawn. And everything Google is doing is a bunch of nonsense. The best thing from all of I /O was this sorry company didn't plaster everybody's pronouns on the screen/ stage.

[@VicharB]

Private Space on your private phone/device in your private life! Something is wrong, isn't it?

[@panathatube]

Google lately (over the last 8 years of so compared to eternity it's nothing) has shown complete lack of imagination

[@thebeanz7838]

Prices of phones are going to skyrocket so the phones can do AI stuff while offline.......when 99.99999999% of the time youll be online

[@ArdaSReal]

The on device ai is the best consumers can hope for and youre complaining? The only that changes is that phones will need chips for it and thats already happing and better chips will be in New phones without ai aswell lol

[@lasunika]

My LG v60 got Gemini few months ago my phone runs on Android 12 :)

[@atharvavelhankar]

It doesn't really matter whether you trust any of these tech companies.... It has been listening to you and seeing what you're seeing since very long time whether you opt in or not. How do you think you see that ad on Instagram immediately after you discussed it...

[@RarelyCorrect]

Believe it or not, if you use non-spyware based OSes, ad-blockers, and sock accounts, the ads you'll see are mostly irrelevant. It's absolutely possible (even easy after you get used to it) to minimize surveillance. If you're too lazy to figure it out just say so instead of saying it "doesn't matter."

[@henrydanzel4822]

as a student AI overview in chrome search is soooooo awesome, I LOVE IT ❤

[@aymandonia9710]

Im in Android 13 well not update until Android 18 release because the are no any big updates for me

[@AMDFan-s1y]

At that point update to android 20.

[@MroStudios]

It is not a big deal AT ALL. 99% of it is GEMINI and it could (and should) be an app available for any OS.

[@PauL-tr1mn]

Security upgrades sound good, as they should. Everything else is the same as it has been for the last five or six years-adding features that have been on Asian phone skins for millennia. And ofc AI AI .... all I want is a toilet paper with AI! So what's actually big thing in A15???

[@Lazy943]

my phone still hasn't got Android 14 I reckon it will receive Android 15 sometime in 2027 🤣

[@thecoryguy]

My rosy XDA boy

[@SylwesterPietrzyk]

Come on Google, bring on notifications summary like iOS does! With plethora of notifications we get from countless apps it would be nice to decide to see not so important notifications in a schedule by us summary rather, then decide whether to read them or not.

[@carlosfigueroa2390]

Is the Android 15 is make my Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, run more smoothly......

[@TheElementSwing]

...would have preferred select copy and paste in google messages or at least smart select for android 15. Maybe get copy/paste from windows xp notepad and scrolling down first before moving into AI, just my thoughts. Its a shame the pixel fold at 1300 is fine for scrolling while the 8 pro at 800 is not. Id buy an update if they'd just fix it already.

[@amakwesteve2763]

Gemini seems dumb compared to Siri with Apple Intelligence.

[@Mruniverse21_]

Can’t wait till Siri get a brain 🧠

[@KianFloppa]

#TeamPixel

[@war9822]

Is in the UK yet

[@marcuswoodgate4026]

Meanwhile the upcoming iPhone 16, we’ve got vertical stacked cameras again.

[@LindonSlaght]

AI is useless so really no difference. I'm more excited for what hardware manufacturers do. For example remains to be seen but the Xperia 1 VI might have just dethroned the 15 Pro Max as having the best battery life. Or if it didn't, it's very close. I'm super pumped about that because most of what stops me from using my phone for photography other than photo quality (which the Xperia fixes, DUH) is battery life and the fact I can't just swap in a new one. If the phone genuinely has 10 hours screen on time with heavy usage then I'm saved. I care about battery swapping right up to the point where it lasts all day no matter what I do/takes literally half an hour to charge. Batteries are easy enough to replace. Just not so easy to wait 2 hours for them to charge in the case of my phone.

[@Gow84]

And I still can't have Gemini play my yt music 😭 WTF googs.

[@oliviaaustin3489]

I'm sorry, but there's way too much AI features & not enough UI/UX features for Android 15/One UI 7.0. The quality of the video is great, but the AI stuff like I said before is too much.

[@iuhere]

half the timeline was gemini

[@locomotivz3489]

More steps backward in the tech industry 🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳

[@mayksahin1091]

So AI will drain our battery very quickly :D

[@elotkarloketh166]

Say NO to AI isn't owned by people

[@nithinmmukundan]

Maybe a big deal for Google but not the users.

[@fantasytky28]

but.... can it fking help to set a simple alarm?.................................

[@diandakov]

Thanks for the video but I see nothing exciting about the A15 really

[@hussainassaggaf5723]

I want any way to root honor 8s ksa-lx9 please

[@SuperDarktide]

Its definitely not a big deal. Its just an os update. Not a big deal at all.

[@Bigtooly]

meanwhile on my 128gb 8gb ram pixel 6 : ) ) ) ) ) they wont even let me customise my quick settings or oled theme let alone install an actual llm.........

[@Ctrl-Alt-Deyeet]

google assistant is much better then Gemini, assistant understands me better, and has more features like.. flip a coin lmao

[@derikhancock1224]

Still waiting for 14 😂

[@Dandre312]

I love the AI generated search because I just don't stop there. If you are a real researcher then you probably reading more than just one article you want to hear from. Read different versions from different reparable sites. It's just that simple.

[@Poppingsboi]

I dont want green lines anymore

[@kerrylynch2800]

Speaker on screen too much

[@bobsemple9341]

I'm reference to the ai. No. It can't generate original art. I get that you don't understand how it works. But why say objectively incorrect information? This should probably be reported for misinformation.

[@jjcoolaus]

I can switch to Gemini on my android 13 now but I kose routines and real time translation if I do that

[@Ayerballer]

Wokini

[@threvissamuel9035]

What's the phone being used in 0.55?

[@LindonSlaght]

Looks like a fairphone 5 but I could be wrong

[@Keysersezo]

It's the Honor magic 6 pro

[@Ghostintheshell3551]

John Connor disapproves

[@alandoesexist]

PIXEL 7 GOT IT?

[@dyn0spectrum]

The first thing I'll be removing from my ROMs.

[@vutfiq]

keep these all shits to google pixel phones, doesn't matter, A15 is just a fork of A12, as A13 & A14.

[@Escapematrix403]

Me who stuck with android 13 pixel os

[@sheng21]

AI? ehhh skip

[@brandonsmith6962]

12 ,13,14, was a big deal 😒

[@WheelerKyle]

12 and 14, yes

[@mooncake8254]

Still on ui6. Before it was on ui5 for past 4 years. Didn't give a 2 flying cents about it. Still doesn't care.

[@apa1103]

Nothing interesting. Still a heavily fragmented OS which keeps it heavy and less optimised compared to say, Windows Phone or iOS. The only good about Android is the developers community and its moddability.

[@Pieteros21]

Just think how good android could be if google forbidden OEM modifications and used treble to bring updates to everyone ...

[@apa1103]

@@Pieteros21 but thats not the case and it will not be possible to not allow per manufacturer to modify for their own Android flavor and optimization since Android is built neutral out of the box. If that is the case, it will surely lose to iOS.

[@Pieteros21]

@@apa1103 manufacture skins were blessing on early android but now they are a ball and chain and make way more harm than good to android in general .

[@sirgreen2792]

How is it still HEAVILY fragmented? Because a few oem won't update? Even though google still pushes critical updates regardless of OEM through Google play services.

[@ariyadi63]

gemini gak bisa telusuri layar

[@AndreiMorar]

So tired of all these useless AI "features"...

[@unicusmedia695]

Me too. One more mention of ai by one more manufacturer and I will literally vomit 🤢

[@sirgreen2792]

How are all AI features useless? I mean if you want use a potato for a phone that's fine too but they aren't useless.

[@Kendawg-zx9cl]

😂 People don't even know their going to start the money grab for AI

[@joshuabergeman354]

​@@Kendawg-zx9cl*they're 🙄😅

[@panathatube]

You can say that again

[@eddiesgaming5771]

i have gimini on my phone andoid14