Google has just confirmed information launched last March by a user of the Android 14 beta. The next version of the operating system, as well as an update of Android 13, will be able to benefit from a volume adjustment ringtone different from notification volume.
A few weeks ago, a tester of the beta version ofAndroid 14 put his finger on a potential novelty of the most interesting OS. According to his discovery, Google intends to separate the volume slider for the ringtone and the one for notifications. Because for quite a while now, there is only one slider to adjust the two features. Not really practical, especially since the two features don’t have much to do with each other and aren’t used in the same way. Why have they merged?
The good news is that Google has decided to rectify the situation. Under Android 13 and 14, it will be possible to independently adjust the ringtone volume during a call and the volume of notifications. What finally put an end to a problem that has been going on for a few years already.
Android 14 will let you set the ringtone and notifications separately
If the old Android versions made it possible to independently manage the sound level of the alarm and notifications (the oldest users will remember that Android 4 already benefited from this), this has not been the case for quite a while now. But now Google is backtracking and once again allowing manage the two volumes separately. The information has just been made official by Google. It appears in a message posted by a member of the Android development team on Google’s IssueTracker forum.
Note that this new feature will not be exclusive to Android 14, as we once thought. It will be officially supported by Android 13 QPR3which will be released in June 2023. Also, even if it is not yet integrated into the current Android 14 beta 1.1 which fixes many bugs and which was deployed a few days ago, no doubt that it will be in a next preview of the OS… In the meantime of course the final release of Android 14, scheduled for the start of the 2023 school year.
Source : Google
