- Android lets users set up a pair of lock screen shortcuts for quick access to system tools.
- Today’s inaugural Android Canary release adds a new “Now Playing” shortcut to your available options.
Locking your smartphone is an important step that practically everyone should take, helping to protect your device and keep your private information secure. And while the lock screen serves a critical role, it also makes getting access to anything on our phone that much slower. Thankfully, Google has offered a few ways to mitigate that impact, and maybe the most useful there is Android’s support for lock screen shortcuts. With today’s release of the first public Android Canary build, we’ve spotted the company’s latest.
Google first started letting us customize the screen-corner shortcuts our lock screens offered back in Android 14, choosing from things like quickly accessing Wallet, Home controls, or our camera.