Adjust any volume without leaving the screen you’re on. After you press a Volume button and touch the icon, all volume sliders appear on the screen. Learn more.

Gestures: Moving between apps and screens is even easier with new gestures:

• Go home - Swipe up from the bottom of our screen to go to your home screen.
• Go back - Swipe towards the middle from the left or right edge to go back to the last screen.
• Switch between recent apps - Swipe up from the bottom of your screen, hold, then release. While using an app, you can also swipe the bar at the bottom of the screen left or right to switch between apps.

The and icons and gestures from previous Android versions are still available if you prefer those.

Learn more about navigation options.

Peeking: For apps that have a sidebar, you can open the sidebar with a gesture. Touch & hold your finger on the very edge of your screen for a second, until you see the bar peeking in from the side, then swipe to open the sidebar.

Give your eyes (and battery) a break with the new system-wide dark mode:

• Easily turn Dark theme on/off by adding it to quick settings.
• If this isn’t your default mode and you're low on charge, Battery saver starts Dark theme and stops it automatically when the phone has charged.

Automatically organize and minimize distraction, with improved notification management:

• Be notified by the things that matter most. You can mark notifications as Silent or Alerting. Silent notifications won’t make a noise or appear on your lock screen, so you can focus on what needs your attention. They are grouped together and you can dismiss them individually or as a group.
• All notifications now include suggested actions. For example, if a friend sends an address, you’ll see a suggestion to open the address in Maps.
• Android 10 uses on-device machine learning to predict what you’ll type next and suggest responses that are tailored to the messages you receive. In addition to Google messaging apps, this works with notifications from non-Google apps, including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
• Notification snoozing is optional but disabled by default. Learn more.
• Music notifications have a progress bar.

To connect to a new Wi-Fi network, you can now scan a QR code instead of typing the password. You can also help others connect to a network you're on by sharing a QR code.

To share your hotspot, your phone can generate a QR code your friends can scan to connect instantly. No need to give them your phone’s hotspot name and password (but you can still use that method, too). Learn more.

Privacy

• Settings now includes a Privacy menu, with more permissions to preserve privacy. Easily see and adjust which apps have access to your phone data and features, like which apps can use the camera or microphone.
• Better controls for file management allow you to restrict access to tracking identifiers, such as IMEI, serial number, and other IDs.

Location

• Settings now includes a Location menu, with better control over location data and sharing. Learn more.
• When apps request permission to your location, you’ll see a pop-up where you can control when the app accesses your location (never, only when app is open, or always).
• If you've set an app to always be able to access your location, you'll see a pop-up when it accesses your location in the background.

Project Mainline

Works in the background to provide faster security updates through Play Store.

• App info page: View the number of notifications an app sends and the amount of mobile data and Wi-Fi it used. You can also open the app from the info page.
• Bluetooth: For convenience, you can now access previously-connected Bluetooth devices right on the main Connected devices screen.
• Display settings: Sleep is now Screen timeout.
• Power button menu: Now includes an Emergency option that opens your emergency information.
• Share options: When you touch to share content, the options load instantly and recommend frequently used apps and recipients. Better security allows you to choose files to share, without sharing all files.