{"id":120855,"date":"2025-05-21T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120855\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:48:09","slug":"android-16-qpr1-borrows-apples-clever-dual-sim-signal-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120855\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 16 QPR1 borrows Apple&#8217;s clever dual-SIM signal bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Android 16 logo on smartphone 01\"  alt=\"Android 16 logo on smartphone 01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Android-16-logo-on-smartphone-01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 16 Quarterly Platform Release 1 Beta 1 is now available for Pixel devices enrolled in the beta program.<\/li>\n<li>This new beta build has some Material 3 Expressive aesthetic changes, including a new signal strength bar indicator when using multiple SIMs.<\/li>\n<li>The dual SIM signal strength indicator looks very similar to iOS, with two signal bars on top of each other, but the main SIM being slightly larger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the rise of eSIMs, more and more phones support dual-SIM connectivity, often pairing your main physical SIM card with a secondary eSIM, so you can have two phone numbers on (possibly) multiple carriers. Not everyone needs to use more than one SIM at a time very often, but it\u2019s particularly useful for international travel or work. Right now, Android displays two signal strength indicators side-by-side, which isn\u2019t the best layout, but that\u2019s changing in Android 16.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"android 16 qpr1b1 dual sim signal bar\"  alt=\"android 16 qpr1b1 dual sim signal bar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/android-16-qpr1b1-dual-sim-signal-bar.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New dual-SIM signal bars in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1. (Credit: rbrtxd \/ Reddit)<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"android 16 qpr1b1 dual sim signal bar no wifi\"  alt=\"android 16 qpr1b1 dual sim signal bar no wifi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/android-16-qpr1b1-dual-sim-signal-bar-no-wifi.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New dual-SIM signal bars without Wi-Fi in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1. (Credit: rbrtxd \/ Reddit)<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"android 15 dual sim signal bars\"  alt=\"android 15 dual sim signal bars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/android-15-dual-sim-signal-bars.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Current dual-SIM signal bars in Android 15. (Credit: nedamdam \/ Reddit)<\/p>\n<p>Google is updating the look of the signal strength indicators in the status bar in the latest Android 16 Quarterly Platform Release 1 Beta 1. As spotted by Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/android_beta\/comments\/1krp4zr\/love_the_new_signal_bar_with_multiple_sims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rbrtxd<\/a>, the new icon has two signal bars on top of each other, with the main SIM on top appearing slightly larger than the secondary SIM on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>This new look is a lot easier to understand than the previous one, which features two signal strength icons next to each other with no discernible difference between them. It\u2019s also hard to tell the actual level of strength with the current one, since there are no separation indicator between the signal bars.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"apple ios 18 dual sim signal bars\"  alt=\"apple ios 18 dual sim signal bars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/apple-ios-18-dual-sim-signal-bars.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Google is taking some pages out of Apple\u2019s playbook, however. This new dual SIM signal strength icon looks very much like what is currently in iOS 18, and Google also seems inspired by Apple with the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-material-3-expressive-redesign-battery-icon-3554579\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battery icon changes<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Despite looking like Google\u2019s inspired by Apple, it seems like users are mostly welcoming of this change. From the Reddit discussion, users weren\u2019t big fans of the previous design, saying that this new look is good and long overdue, and saves spacein the status bar. Another user commented that it now \u201clooks like the phone is surprised that it has a mobile signal,\u201d as it looks like four exclamation marks (!!!!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-dual-sim-signal-bar-apple-3560100\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Quarterly Platform Release 1 Beta 1 is now available for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2239,867,34416,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-120855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android-16","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-material-3-expressive","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114548028649632899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}