Right here’s an early take a look at Google’s revamped Pixel wallpaper app in Android 15 QPR1

Although the secure Android 15 replace hasn’t been launched but, Google is already beta testing its first quarterly platform launch. The primary beta of Android 15 QPR1 was launched late final week, giving us a sneak peek at what to anticipate within the December Android 15 replace. Whereas I used to be digging by way of the discharge, I discovered proof that Google may overhaul the design of the Pixel wallpaper app. Right here’s an early take a look at what the Pixel wallpaper app may appear to be in a future Android 15 launch.

The Pixel wallpaper app is the place you go to use Google Pixel wallpapers in your gadget. It’s additionally the place you go to customise the lock display screen shortcuts, tweak the lock display screen clock model, decide the system coloration palette, allow Themed Icons, and extra. The app is mainly a one-stop store for customizing the feel and appear of your private home display screen and lock display screen.

There are at the moment two methods to entry the Pixel wallpaper app. First, you may press and maintain on an empty spot on the house display screen after which faucet the Wallpaper & Type button that seems within the context menu. Second, you may go to Settings > Wallpaper & Type. Both technique brings you to the Pixel wallpaper app, although the primary choice opens the app to the “dwelling display screen” tab whereas the second choice opens the app to the “lock display screen” tab.

With the brand new model of the Pixel wallpaper app that we enabled in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1, the entry factors are nonetheless the identical, however the UI is considerably completely different. Right here’s a video that compares the present UI of the Pixel wallpaper app to the in-development one we enabled. Notice that the in-development UI is way from completed, so many options and property are lacking. Nonetheless, this early look offers us a good suggestion of what to anticipate from the brand new model of the app.

For starters, the tabs to modify between customizing the house display screen and customizing the lock display screen are actually gone. As an alternative, to modify from customizing the house display screen to customizing the lock display screen (or vice versa), you now merely swipe from one to the opposite within the carousel beneath the place it says “Wallpaper & model.”

The following massive change is to how lock display screen clock customization is dealt with. As an alternative of swiping left or proper to cycle by way of the out there lock display screen clock types, all of the out there choices might be proven in a backside sheet. The lock display screen clock coloration and dimension customization settings are additionally contained inside this new backside sheet, albeit in separate tabs.

Likewise, the lock display screen shortcut customization UI is now a part of a backside sheet as a substitute of a separate web page. With this modification, you not must scroll to see all out there lock display screen shortcuts, as as much as 10 shortcuts can match on the sheet (solely 9 shortcuts at the moment exist for telephones).

The identical is true for the brand new system coloration palette picker, which exhibits two rows of palette choices as a substitute of 1. Choosing a coloration palette causes the house display screen preview to zoom in, permitting you to raised preview the modifications to your icons. The choice to toggle the darkish theme additionally seems when the preview zooms in, so you may shortly preview how your private home display screen seems to be with the darkish theme enabled, too.

The remaining choices and toggles aren’t at the moment working in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1, so we will’t present them off but. We realized earlier right this moment that the Android 15 replace for Pixel telephones gained’t roll out subsequent month, but it surely’s unlikely that Google will push out this new UI within the Android 15 secure launch. As an alternative, it’s extra doubtless we’ll see it within the December 2024 Pixel Drop on the earliest.