Android 16 can finally give you control of Quick Settings sizes

Last month, we reported that Google was working on a major overhaul of Android’s Quick Settings panel for next year. Android16 update. From what we’ve managed to enable, Google wants Android to show more notifications and Quick Settings tiles on the screen, and the best way to do this is to split the notifications and Quick Settings panels into two separate pages. However, there is another way to fit more Quick Settings tiles on the screen; which is to make them resizable; apparently Google is working on it for Android 16.

While reviewing the latest Android beta update that Google released earlier this week, I saw that Google has made more progress in this regard. Android’s Quick Settings panel is getting an overhaul. I discovered that Google has created some categories to better organize your Quick Settings tiles. easier to find the right Quick Settings tile But shortly after this discovery, I found an even bigger change: Quick Settings tiles were now resizable!

To be clear, in the latest version Quick Settings tiles cannot be resized by default. Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 drop them, so don’t try to resize them on your Pixel. However, if you enable the Quick Settings panel in development in Beta 3, they can be resized. To resize them, all you have to do is tap any tile while in editor view and then drag left or right to shrink or expand the point. Tiles can be 1×1 or 2×1 in size, allowing you to fit as little as 8 or as many as 16 tiles on a single page. You can resize any tiles, including those provided by third-party apps; but obviously not every tile will have a useful description when expanded.

For comparison, here is an image showing the default Quick Settings layout. Android15 Against Android 16:

Here’s an image showing other Quick Settings panel layouts you can create with this feature:

Finally, here’s a short video showing how you can resize Quick Settings tiles in Android 16:

Personally, I’m not a fan of 1×1 tiles without labels, but I can understand why many people might prefer them. They take up much less space on the screen, so you can fit much more on a single page in the Quick Settings panel.

One thing that’s not clear to me is why the new Quick Settings panel doesn’t take up the entire screen, given that it no longer needs to leave room for any notifications. However, it is possible that this situation will change, especially since we are still a long way from this transformation. Expected release date of Android 16This means Google has plenty of time to tweak its plans for Android’s new Quick Settings panel. This could also include scrapping this new resizable Quick Settings tile feature altogether, but we’ll keep an eye out to see if that happens.