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Tip: Easier toggling of Wi-Fi/cellular data on Android 12 (lemdro.id)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Turning Wi-Fi, data on/off on Android 12 is more difficult compared to previous versions. You have to stretch your fingers to the top of the screen to access quick settings, tap the new internet tile (no actual quick toggles) and that will open a menu for toggling wifi and data.

I don't know why Google has done this but it obviously turns such a simple task into a headache.

The simple workround i came up with today might be useful to others who find this dumb and unintuitive.

This requires some sort of app that can run android "activities". I tried this with Tasker and Macrodroid.

You need to launch the following activity using a floating button, a widget or a gesture:

android.settings.panel.action.INTERNET_CONNECTIVITY

This will open the internet connectivity menu from bottom of the screen for easy toggling of wifi/data and switching wifi networks. The behaviour is similar to iPhone's control center.

Here is the Macrodroid widget I've created for this that is activated by tapping a floating button.

If you're too lazy to create your own shortcut you can use this widget.

What are the advantages of this workaround?

  1. no need to stretch your finger to the top of the phone (with bigger phones this is more difficult)

  2. you can toggle Wi-Fi/Data from ANY app, no need to leave the app to do this

  3. direct access to actual toggles with just one tap

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Alright, a few things:

  1. Removing a direct QS tile for Wifi and Mobile Data was a dumb idea from Google's part, and there is no defense for that. I'm on LineageOS and I have the option to add those two back, but I think this isn't something that came from AOSP.
  2. The Internet QS Tile is actually a pretty good idea for the average user. Most of the time when you want to disable Mobile Data you want to enable WiFi, and vice versa. This adds one more step, but removes one QS Tile and condense Internet options into a single thing. I'm fairly sure this wouldn't be a slight controversial decision if not for the removal of the direct QS Tiles.

This is the second post this week that mentions the iOS control center and I'm confused by it. On Android, the bottom area uses a upward gesture to go home and/or Recents, that's why the Quick Settings and Notification are on the top.

How does the user go to the homescreen on iOS since the bottom area opens the control center?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since iPhone X, all iPhones with no home button has the Control Center on the top right side and notification on the top left side.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it isn't on the bottom? Why the hell some posts mentions the control center being on the bottom?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my case it's because I used an iPhone SE until a couple of weeks ago. It's still a thing on their older phones and I think it makes more sense than the newer implementation. Notifications on top and toggles on bottom is the most sensible way to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Issue with that is that you need to stretch your finger to the top to show the screen in the first place. If you had to readjust your grip to reach the top, then you are likely already "in range" to reach the QS Tiles on top.

If they moved the Quick Settings to the bottom, then you'd need to readjust your grip after triggering the Notifications/Quick Settings shade.

It only makes sense to move the Tiles to the bottom if you also redesign how you trigger the shade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, cool to hear they went the sensible way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why would you need to disable mobile data when you enable WiFi? WiFi is automatically preferred, so having the mobile data toggle on or off doesn't matter while connected to WiFi.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotty internet on both sides of the equation. It is common enough to happen.

If your WiFi is weird at the moment due to ISP side maintenance, or if you are on the edge of the signal, you might want to disable wifi and enable mobile data.

On the other hand, you could simply not have enough data left in your plan, so you want to keep your phone from using Mobile Data, even if you might get out of range from your router.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's the kind of thing they should allow us to enable in dev tools, if they want to hide it from the average user.