# What is your reaction to Android 15? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873 "2025-06-20T00:44:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/21 "2025-06-20T14:36:48Z")
Thanks to this thread, i realized it was possible to restore my power button to pulling up the power menu, instead of Google’s AI. So i did so. And i told my husband, who did that, and also turned off a bunch of other gestures he didn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/22 "2025-06-20T14:37:41Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Becomes the normal 09:35 What had it been? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/23 "2025-06-20T14:38:38Z")
HH Min Very weird. I’ve never seen the time stacked like that before. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/24 "2025-06-20T17:18:38Z")
Thanks for the fixes. I’m unimpressed with the update, which does nothing I’m interested in and makes it much harder to use. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/25 "2025-06-20T17:25:08Z")
One thing I don’t like is that now, when I click on a phone number, it will only go to one of the phone apps (Google or Samsung, the one I don’t use, don’t remember which) and requires it to be the default app in order to make the call. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/26 "2025-06-20T18:48:48Z")
I had a similar problem with Messages last year on an earlier version of Android. I had to make Google Messages the default. I didn’t want to use Samsung Messages. I try to use Google for everything. The calendar, Messages, Contacts etc. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/27 "2025-06-20T19:05:41Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > Their top choice, Nova Launcher, should probably be avoided. It is the one I use, and I’ve been using it for years, but there is high chance it will not receive any future updates. The team developing it was let go, leaving only one person left working on it. I used to use Nova Launcher; after I heard that news I started looking at alternatives and eventually settled on Smart Launcher. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/28 "2025-06-20T21:33:42Z")
I don’t like the “battery life percentage” in the top right changing from a nice, clean, readable number into a tiny bar chart, with (too) small numbers squeezed in. I’ve found fixes and settings for many other things I don’t like, but not that. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/29 "2025-06-21T05:12:40Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/30 "2025-06-21T13:55:52Z")
Same here, and I have a tiny crack in my screen protector that exactly obscures the number. I dislike having to turn to landscape mode to check my battery level. I knpw this is a problem unique to me, but the old version was readable even with the slightly damaged screen. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/31 "2025-06-21T14:05:45Z")
In the untailored Google-standard Android (15 or 16), the battery state icon is an unlabeled bar graph in the shape of a dry cell (“battery”), with an option to display the numerical charge percentage next to the icon. Samsung doesn’t do that? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/32 "2025-06-21T14:20:17Z")
I prefer the graphical representation to a number. I don’t need to know whether my battery is at 73% or 74%, and i can see the approximate size of the little image of a battery quickly, to without having to interpret numbers. Although, since there’s room on my alerts bar, i show both. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/33 "2025-06-21T15:54:41Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > In the untailored Google-standard Android (15 or 16), the battery state icon is an unlabeled bar graph in the shape of a dry cell (“battery”), with an option to display the numerical charge percentage next to the icon. > > Samsung doesn’t do that? On my Samsung Android, I have the numerals only. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873/34 "2025-06-21T18:52:02Z")
The microscopic battery gauge pisses me off too. Best workaround I’ve found is an app: **Battery Widget % Level Plus**. Gives me a home screen widget that’s next best thing to what was taken away. I only use it to glance at the battery level so “contains ads” isn’t an issue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873.md?page=1)