Among the new features of Android 15 beta 2, the second release for developers available a few hours ago, a truly interesting one has emerged. In the Pixels set in English it is found in the Vibration & haptics section as Adaptive Vibration, which is easy to translate into Adaptive Vibration and understand its purpose: dynamically adjust the intensity of the feedback depending on the circumstances.
It has been possible to do this for some time, to indicate to the system the strength of the vibration according to one’s habits and preferences, but in this way there will still remain some circumstances where feedback is too intense or too weak. With automaticity the problem disappears (or should disappear): the Pixel recognizes the context in which it finds itself and calibrates the intensity of the feedback moment by moment, so as not to be inadequate.
If the “shock” is too weak you risk losing calls, messages and notifications of various types, certainly even some important ones such as alarms, if it is too intense, however, you risk making more noise with the vibration than with the ringtoneand at least once it has happened to anyone to receive a call with their smartphone, on “vibration”, resting on a table, in a silent environment.
Adaptive vibration
Automatically adjusts your phone’s vibration based on the environment
Your smartphone’s microphone and other sensors are used to determine the noise level and context. No data will ever be recorded.
The settings animation that clarifies the Adaptive Vibration operation gives the example of table in which the intensity of the vibration can be minimized, and the opposite example of the Sofa, in which no vibration, due to a material that absorbs vibrations very well, will ever be too intense. It is not clear which sensors are involved, the hope is that the novelty can work well not so much now but on stable Android 15 because it seems like one of those innovations that are apparently of little importance, but which then, in everyday life, prove to be decisive or almost so.
From the first information filtering from those who have installed the second beta of Android 15, it seems that the new rumor is available on both Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 7 Protherefore it should not be exclusive to the most recent models. Fun fact: it was brought to light by the well-known developer Mishaal Rahman, who confessed that he had seen lines of code in a previous Android beta that suggested the debut of adaptive vibration, but that he was convinced that it was something that Google would launch with the Pixel 9, in October. He was wrong.
