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Android 16 may blur your lock screen wallpaper for a new ‘ambient AOD’ look
Google is working on an ambient AOD feature that allows your lock screen wallpaper to show up on the always-on display
- Google is developing a new ‘ambient AOD’ feature for Android, which will display a blurred version of the lock screen wallpaper on the always-on display.
- This feature, showcased briefly by Google during The Android Show: I/O Edition, is an evolution of previous AOD wallpaper support and aims to show the entire wallpaper.
- Currently buggy and causing screen flickering on test devices like the Pixel 8 Pro, its successful implementation may depend on specific display capabilities, potentially limiting it to future devices like the Pixel 10 series and arriving in an Android 16 quarterly release.
One of the most notable aspects of Google’s new Material 3 Expressive design is its generous use of background blur. The Material 3 Expressive redesign in Android adds background blur to the notification and Quick Settings panels, the recents menu, and the app drawer. Soon, Google may also blur the lock screen wallpaper to show it on the always-on display; this feature could arrive in an upcoming quarterly release of Android 16.
Displaying the lock screen wallpaper on the always-on display isn’t actually new to Android phones, let alone Pixel devices. In fact, Google introduced AOD wallpaper support back in 2018 with Android 9 Pie and briefly implemented it on the Pixel 3 series before removing it from future models. Over the past few months, the company has been developing a new AOD wallpaper implementation that shows the entire wallpaper on the AOD, rather than just a portion.
