Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 quietly removes a helpful Recents characteristic

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 is now rolling out, and it formally brings a number of bug fixes and stability enhancements. Nevertheless, the replace can be rolling out with a delicate downgrade for the Recents menu that we first noticed again within the Android Canary 2512 replace.

In case you didn’t even notice Android’s Recents display had highly effective content-sharing instruments constructed into it, you’re not alone. And that’s precisely what makes this transformation sting slightly extra. Google is downgrading a small however helpful characteristic that many customers in all probability by no means received the prospect to totally respect.

The Recents display, the one the place you turn between apps, additionally quietly doubles as a productiveness device. Lengthy-pressing on photos inside supported apps allows you to copy them, share them, open them in Lens, or save them regionally.

Google is now stripping down all these options within the newest Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 replace. The wealthy set of long-press choices is being changed with a way more restricted interface. As an alternative of with the ability to save a picture regionally or open it immediately in Lens, you are actually left with simply two fundamental actions: copy or share. When you can nonetheless use Circle to Search to lookup photos, the comfort of saving or extracting photos immediately is gone.

With the lowered picture interplay choices now stay in a public beta, it seems like Google is severe about pushing this transformation ahead. Nevertheless, there’s nonetheless an opportunity Google may tweak or restore some performance earlier than the steady launch.