Whether it’s the Material You design for “you”, or the more private and secure information security protection function. latest Android 12 It indeed gives people a lot of new ideas and functions. However, I don’t know if those of you who have tried this new system early have noticed that this update has added a function that can change the power button to call out Google Assistant by long pressing the power button. But because of this, people immediately want to ask “How to shut down the phone like this?” Before the official launch of Android 12, perhaps through the latest voice assistant function update, Google will bring users the answer. Continue reading APK teardown shows Google Voice Assistant will be able to help you “turn off” the report content.
APK teardown shows Google Assistant will help you “turn off your phone”
With the official announcement of Google I/O, I wonder if your device (if it can support it) has installed this Android 12 beta version. Have you found any easter eggs? It can be said that Google has added a lot of ingenuity to the menu function of long-pressing the power button in recent times. First, in addition to the original shutdown function, it provides fast Google Home IoT shortcut functions and payment ticket-related functions. After this Android update, the “Hold for Assistant” function is silently introduced – as the name suggests, it is the option to turn the power button into a voice assistant button.
In fact, you can feel from the lack of Chinese translation of the options that this function really does not fully provide the relevant experience. After all, the most direct idea after trying it out is where to choose the previous shutdown function. Although the drop-down toolbar previouslyIt was found that a shutdown button may be added. But now, through the disassembly analysis of the latest Google Voice Assistant APK by foreign media 9to5Google, it is found that the voice assistant may start to support the shutdown function of Android phones or call up the menu (foolproof?).
▲Image source: 9to5Google
At this stage, if you make a shutdown request to Google Assistant, it will directly respond with the relevant steps. If future updates can support this operation function, it will be more intuitive to use – that is, everything can be left to the voice assistant, and voice control can control more functions.
Furthermore, based on information from the same source. In the future, Android phones may also add a long-press power button and volume increase shutdown button combination – I believe iPhone users should be very familiar with this. But so far, these changes have not been seen in the first public beta version of Android 12 (at least on the Pixel 3 XL I use).
It seems that Google has really carefully prepared many solutions for changing the function of the power button.
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