One of the primary belongings you would possibly discover once you get Android 12 in your cellphone is {that a} standout Android characteristic is not the place you anticipate it.

I’m speaking concerning the device control panel Google added into the working system with final 12 months’s Android 11 launch. The panel gives a useful set of instructions that permits you to entry and alter any good lights and different linked devices arrange in your house.

On Pixel telephones, no less than, that panel used to come back up once you’d press and maintain your cellphone’s energy button. With Android 12, although, it’s not a part of the facility button menu. But don’t despair: it isn’t gone fully. It simply takes an additional step and a teensy little bit of preparation to succeed in it.

Reposition your Android 12 machine management panel

First issues first — observe that panel down. In Android 12, the panel has moved from the facility button menu into the Quick Settings space of the working system (which is the place some device-makers, together with Samsung, had stashed it in Android 11, anyway).

By default, you’ll in all probability should swipe down twice from the highest of your display screen after which possibly even swipe over to the left a couple of times to seek out it. But with about 60 seconds of setup, you’ll be able to transfer it to a way more optimum place:

• Swipe down twice from the highest of your display screen to open up the total Quick Settings space. If you already see a “Device controls” management in one of many first 4 spots in that menu, you’re all set. Otherwise, you’ll need to do some fine-tuning.
• Tap the pencil-shaped icon within the lower-left nook of the Quick Settings space. If you’re utilizing a cellphone apart from a Pixel, you might need to faucet a three-line menu icon after which search for an “Edit” command there as a substitute.
• Find the “Device controls” tile, then press and maintain it and slide it as much as one of many first 4 positions within the Quick Settings space.
• Tap the arrow within the upper-left nook of the display screen to save lots of and exit.

Now that the choice is in a extra outstanding place, you’ll be able to all the time get to it with simply one swipe down from the highest of your display screen as a substitute of two.

It’s nonetheless not fairly as handy because the previous energy button placement, admittedly, but it surely’s a step in the correct path — and at this level, it’s about the very best you are able to do.