Have you ever looked at your phone‘s screen and thought, “That’s a lot of blur?” If you use an Android device, you’re not alone. As Google rolls out its new Material 3 Expressive design language, a ...

PutMask is a free face masking app for Android that uses AI to automatically detect and blur faces in both videos and photos. All processing happens on your device with no server uploads, making it ...

Android 16 is about to go stable, likely next month at Google I/O. We have been through several developer-focused previews and 4 betas, none of which brought any major changes to the user interface or ...

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 introduces a background blur effect in the app drawer, keyguard, and other areas. Activating Battery Saver will disable the background blur effect. Background blur consumes more ...

Android 16 may introduce blurred lock screen wallpapers on the always-on display with a new feature called “ambient AOD.” When tested on the Pixel 8 Pro, the feature reportedly caused the device’s ...

Android Canary 2603 has arrived with a whole bunch of new UI tweaks. One we’ve just noticed implements a new blur effect when launching apps. You’ll see the blur when opening apps on either your home ...

After introducing with the Material 3 Expressive redesign last year, Google is adding more blur to the system UI with Android 17 QPR1 Beta 3. Android 16 QPR1 added blur to Notifications and Quick ...

Fresh leaks from Telegram and X offer early glimpses of Android 17’s blur-heavy System UI, upgraded screen recording, app lock hints, and more. Android 17 is starting to come into view, with early ...

No one wants to see a blurry picture — at least, not a picture that's been blurred by accident. But there are some great reasons to blur a picture intentionally. It can look artistic, for example, and ...

Google is working on a new setting for Android that will let users easily disable the background blur effect. This change is a win for both accessibility, as it improves readability, and for battery ...