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.

Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google may have released Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 at the worst possible time of the day, but we’re still going to dive into it and share all the big new stuff. As the next quarterly update that will fix ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Using the smartphone's rear camera flash as a flashlight is one of the nice-to-have features in a handset. Smartphone vendors figured out ...