A person using the light on an Android phone to look under the couch. - H_Ko/Shutterstock Using the smartphone's rear camera flash as a flashlight is one of the nice-to-have features in a handset.

Google may add native flashlight brightness controls to Pixel phones in the next quarterly release of Android 16. While the hardware has long supported it, Pixel users currently need to use an app to ...

A future Android 16 build will introduce native flashlight brightness controls for Pixel phones. This means users will finally be able to adjust the flashlight’s intensity directly from Quick Settings ...

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A future Android update will add a native flashlight brightness slider to the Quick Settings on Pixel phones. The latest Android Canary release introduces a new visual design for this slider that ...

When Android phones first arrived, there wasn’t a built-in flashlight feature. So, flashlight apps were extremely popular—and profitable. One particular flashlight app got caught doing something not ...

We’ll get this part out of the way very quickly. It has been for years now that other phone owners could natively control the brightness level of their phone’s flashlight feature. Meanwhile, Pixel ...