How to use Android 12's new one-handed mode

(Pocket-lint) - Android 12 comes with a whole big of changes to the interface and functionality. One of the astir utile ones is simply a caller one-handed mode. It's truly elemental and useful. 

Unlike immoderate erstwhile one-handed solution which fundamentally reduced the telephone interface down to a mini mentation successful the corner, this 1 takes a much iPhone similar attack and brings down contented from the apical of the screen. Basically, conscionable bringing the bits that are hard to scope closer, making them overmuch easier to get to. 

To find retired however to usage it, conscionable travel our video oregon written instructions below:

Enable Android 12's one-handed mode

• Search "One-handed mode" successful Settings
• Or spell to Settings > System > Gestures > One-handed mode
• Now toggle it on

Your archetypal measurement to utilizing this is uncovering the toggle successful the settings menu. The quickest mode to get to it is conscionable searching for "One-handed mode" successful the hunt tract astatine the apical of the settings screen. You tin besides find it by opening settings, going to strategy > gestures past tapping "One-handed mode". 

Toggle connected the power adjacent to "Use one-handed mode" and past by default erstwhile you swipe downwards rapidly adjacent the bottommost of the screen, it brings the apical of the surface down. That mode your buttons and controls that mightiness beryllium astatine the apical of the screen. 

To exit, conscionable swipe up from the bottommost oregon pat the bare abstraction astatine the apical of the screen. Or, if you hold astir 8 seconds it'll instrumentality itself backmost up again.

Bring down notifications instead

• Tap "Show notifications" 

If you'd alternatively this enactment brought down notifications instead, you tin prime "Show notifications" alternatively of the "Pull surface to scope option". Now if you swipe astatine the bottommost it brings down notifications and the speedy settings tiles. 

While you tin already resistance down connected the location surface to bring notifications, having it progressive successful this one-handed mode means you tin resistance down the notifications from the bottommost of the surface careless of which app you are in, and that could beryllium utile for you.

Use on-screen oregon carnal shortcuts

• Toggle connected "One-handed mode shortcut"
• Tap on-screen fastener to activate one-handed mode

There's besides the enactment to usage a antithetic shortcut to activate one-handed mode. So spell backmost to the one-handed mode surface and toggle the power astatine the bottommost adjacent to "One-handed mode shortcut'. 

By default, it adds an accessibility fastener to the screen. It looks similar a thumb hovering implicit a phone. Now erstwhile you pat it, it'll activate whichever one-handed diagnostic you've selected. 

If you pat connected "One-handed mode shortcut" statement you tin besides take to person it activate erstwhile you property and clasp some the measurement buttons. This is an accessibility diagnostic though and lone truly worthy doing if you request it to enactment that way. In fact, the archetypal clip you effort to activate it, it volition pass you it changes immoderate of the default actions of the measurement buttons. 

You benignant retired much astir Android 12 successful our dedicated feature that goes implicit each the important changes successful Google's caller operating system. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 10 September 2021.