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TL;DR
- Google has launched a brand new Android Canary launch channel for builders to check experimental options.
- A brand new “Parental controls” setting has appeared in Pixel gadgets working the Canary construct.
- The setting could also be linked to Android 16’s upcoming “Supervision” instruments for managing display time and net content material for youngsters.
We’ve noticed a brand new “Parental controls” setting in Pixel gadgets working Google’s new Android Canary construct. It seems below the Digital Wellbeing choice inside the Settings menu, and we predict it could possibly be linked to the “Supervision” instruments we beforehand noticed within the Android 16 Beta 4 launch.
Google’s new Android Canary launch channel provides builders early entry to in-progress Android options. On this preliminary Canary construct, the brand new “Parental controls” setting hints at future updates to little one security instruments on Android.
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The outline of the setting reads, “digital floor guidelines & display cut-off dates.” Nonetheless, tapping it at present doesn’t open up something within the Canary construct. Like we stated, the characteristic seems much like a “Supervision” web page we beforehand present in Android 16 Beta 4.
Within the earlier beta, the “Supervision” web page included a toggle to allow machine supervision and an choice for net content material filtering. As soon as supervision was turned on by getting into a PIN for the supervised account, filters may block specific websites on Chrome and specific content material in Google Search. These instruments intention to cover inappropriate supplies on-line, although they could not have the ability to block the whole lot.
The Android Canary channel is aimed toward builders, and Google warns that these builds aren’t appropriate for day by day customers. The primary launch is accessible for a number of Pixel fashions, together with the Pixel 9 collection, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Pill.
