Android Go, the light-weight model of the full-featured OS, has formally reached over 200 million daily users. Google first launched Android Go in 2017, providing a smoother Android expertise for customers on entry-level units with 2GB of RAM or much less.

Now, Google has additionally introduced that a few of these reasonably priced units will obtain an replace to Android 12 (Go version), bringing a number of options from the usual, newly launched Android 12 to extra units. Most notably, telephones with Android 12 (Go version) will open apps as much as 30 p.c sooner and with smoother animation. Google says that apps will open directly, eliminating the brief interval during which you would possibly see a clean display screen.

Other options, just like the privateness dashboard, are already out there in the usual model of Android 12, letting you view and entry your app permissions from one hub. You may additionally acknowledge the on-screen translation device, computerized app hibernation that helps preserve your cellphone’s battery life, together with the helpful characteristic that allows you to share an app with close by units, stopping different customers from having to make use of knowledge to obtain it themselves.

Right now, it’s nonetheless unclear which units will get the Android 12 (Go version) replace or when precisely the replace will likely be rolled out. Google says it’s slated for 2022 however has but to pinpoint a particular date.