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what's up guys lon here from Android Authority and today Google had their Google i/o keynote where they of course talked a lot about Android cue and they also rolled out the Android cue beta 3 update for pixel devices but you can also flash this on a bunch of non pixel Android phones like the oneplus 60 which is pretty cool so let's go ahead and go over some of the changes you can expect to see in the Android cue beta 3 and also some of the changes you can expect to see in Android cue when it rolls out officially later on this year so I have the Android cue beta 3 release running on my pixel 3 XL and while Android cue focuses a lot on quality of life improvements and under the hood improvements that doesn't mean that there aren't some aesthetic or visual changes and one of the biggest and probably most long-overdue changes is an official dark theme so if you scroll down and check your notification shade you now have a actual toggle for dark theme which you can enable just by tapping on it and this was a feature that was sort of seen in the beta 1 release but if you didn't have dark mode enabled on Pi before flashing cue you didn't have the dark mode and if you wanted it you had to enable it through ADB and it was sort of a janky experience but now you actually have the official dark mode on beta 3 with a toggle to turn it on and off which is really nice and as you can see it does give you a true black at least in your notification shade and also in your settings menu and your notifications themselves will also be blacked out as well but not everything is a hundred percent true black so you don't get battery saving properties across the board if you have AMOLED screen so if you take a look at your app drawer for example it's sort of it it has an opacity effect to it and the same thing applies with the Google feed so the background is transparent and then your Google cards are actually more of a dark shade of grey so you don't actually get any better saving properties from that but overall I think it looks really good and it's nice to finally have it officially baked into Android with the beta 3 update Google's also change the way that gesture controls work so now it's completely 100% gesture base this means that there's no more back button and it's a little bit more similar to the iPhone or the oneplus 60 but it's also a little bit different as well so if you swipe up from the the pill down at the bottom there it does take you home and if you swipe up and hold this will take you into your recent applications you can also get to your recent apps by swiping right on the bar below and this will take you through each individual app one by one and if you want to go back you just swipe inwards from either the left or the right side if I swipe in here it'll take me back and I swipe in from the right it'll also take me back now one thing that this does sort of get rid of is you can't swipe in from applications that have a ham hamburger menu now so it google play for example if you swipe in it's not going to bring the hamburger menu open it's just gonna take you back so instead you're gonna have to tap on the icon instead to open it so that's a little bit different and the swipe in to go back will take some getting used to but overall I do like this gesture navigation way better than the one that we had with Android Pi Google is also focusing a lot on privacy and security with Android q and with the Android Q beta 3 update there is now a dedicated privacy section in the settings menu that pretty much puts privacy front and center and it makes things a lot easier to find like your app permissions for example which has now been renamed to permissions manager is now only a couple of taps away whereas in Android Pi it was a little bit more buried there also adding a new feature called location reminders because there are a ton of apps out there that use our location and it could be hard to keep track of what all those apps are so location reminders will basically be like hey this app is still using your location and you'll have the option to change the way that it acts as your location if you want perhaps the biggest change with privacy and security is the way that Google is handling their security updates so now security updates are going to be over-the-air and they're pretty much going to be updated the same way that apps from the Google Play Store are being updated so this means that you're going to get security updates a lot faster and you're also going to be able to update your phone without having to reboot it and this will probably benefit a lot of other OEMs out there that aren't quite as quick with security updates so it's pretty much going to be a win-win situation for everybody Google also talked about a lot of features today that we won't be until later on this year and one of those features is called live caption and live caption is meant to benefit people that are deaf or hard of hearing with instant caption and it's going to work across pretty much any application that produces audio so whether that's a video app like YouTube and audio application like podcasts or even video chat apps like Google do oh and it's processed completely locally so third parties can't listen in on it and you can also use it when you're offline another feature that you can expect to see with Android cue is something called focus mode and this is another digital well-being feature that's meant to separate you more from your phone and allow you to do other things so you can disable any apps of your choice to prevent you from getting distracted and allow you to will focus on other stuff and it's sort of like the app timers and digital well being - the whole timer part of it and the cool thing about this feature is that it's not only just coming to Android cue but it's also going to be available with Android PI devices as well later on this fall Google is also adding something else called family link which is going to allow you to set screen time limits approve app installs and also set bedtimes the next feature that I want to mention is called Smart replies and smart replies isn't necessarily new it already exists in Android but Google is making some improvements to it to make it even better in Android q so it's going to work across all messaging apps and android q and on top of these suggested replies that you get you're also going to get something called suggested actions so for example if somebody sends you an address instead of copying the address opening up Google Maps and then pasting the address and conducting a search you can now do all of that with a simple press of a button which not only saves you a lot of steps but ultimately a lot of time before I wrap up this video there's a couple of other things that I want to mention with Android cue 1 it's going to have native support for 5g and 2 it's also going to support foldable devices and have a feature called app continuity so for example if you're playing a game when the phone is folded up and you happen to unfold it the app will automatically rescale to fit the main display and also be exactly where you left off but that's pretty much it for Android cue and the beta 3 release let us know your thoughts down in the comment section below let us know what feature of Android Q is your face Ritt leave that again in the comments and as always if you guys enjoy this video give a thumbs up we definitely appreciate it and I'll talk to you guys in the next video