Android Pie comes with plenty of new features and enhancements which aim to deliver an even better user experience than Nougat. In this article, we take a look at our favorite Android 9 Pie features.

Many of the improvements in Android Pie are aimed at keeping a tab on one’s smartphone usage habits in check, while others make extensive use of AI to tailor an experience that’s better suited to the end user.

If you are looking for an exhaustive list of all the new Android 9 Pie features, check out the list below. Pie might take its own sweet time to arrive on your Android device but until then you can always drool over its features.

Android 9 Pie Features

1. New gesture navigation system
2. Support for displays with notch
3. New Recent apps view (a.k.a Overview screen)
4. Text and image selection from new Overview screen
5. Redesigned Quick Settings
6. Quick Settings toggle are no longer expandable
7. New rotation icon
8. Material Design 2 for system settings
9. App Actions — Uses Machine learning to try and automatically guess your next move
10. Slices — Shows in-app actions in the app drawer
11. Adaptive Brightness
12. Adaptive Battery
13. Enhanced Do Not Disturb — Hides all visual interruptions
14. Dashboard — Gives an overview of your smartphone usage habits
15. App Timer — You can restrict the amount of time you can spend inside an app on a daily basis
16. Shush — Not a part of the initial Android Pie release.
17. Wind Down — Turns your phone’s display into monochrome
18. Automatically hides frequently dismissed notifications
19. Maximum of 4 notification icons in the status bar
20. Revamped Google launcher with Google search bar moved to the bottom
21. Rotation lock button shows up in the navigation bar when the phone is turned to landscape mode
22. Improved volume controls
23. Ability to markup screenshots
24. Lockdown mode
25. App Standby Buckets groups apps based on use and limits resources for infrequently used ones
26. New Accessibility menu
27. Screenshot option in Power menu
28. Option to select Dark theme for certain system elements
29. Smart text selection
30. Improved notification management
31. Enhanced Message notification experience with media preview
32. Smart reply for notifications
33. Simplified Notification channel
34. Ability to pair up to 5 Bluetooth devices
35. Support for HEIF and HDR VP9 video formats
36. Over 150+ new emojis
37. Password autofill now works in browsers
38. Improved Ambient display
39. ART improvements for faster app loading and installation times
40. Digital Wellbeing
41. Support for multi-camera streams
42. New system animations
43. A new unified system dialog box for biometric authentication
44. Wi-Fi RTT support for indoor positioning
45. Improved security by using TLS as default
46. DNS over TLS for all web communications
47. Secure transactions via Protected Confirmation APIs
48. New Call log permission to prevent apps from accessing call logs if not required
49. Wired charging sound
50. Ring mode shortcut — Power and Volume Up button
51. Calendar event on lock screen
52. Repositioned clock to the left on the status bar
53. Clock icon shows the actual time
54. Battery Saving Location tracking mode has been removed
55. Configurable Battery save mode
56. Granular vibration control settings
57. Bluetooth icon will automatically disappear from status bar when no devices are connected
58. Android Auto Wireless support
59. New way to activate Split screen
60. Touching the fingerprint scanner will keep the device awake
61. Bluetooth settings have been tweaked
62. ‘Downloads’ app renamed to ‘Files’
63. Tweaked app icons and iconography
64. Camera and microphone cannot be accessed by apps running in the background
65. Random MAC address
66. Hardware acceleration for neural network
67. Support for Vulkan v1.1
68. Warning when running older apps built for Android 4.1
69. SystemUI tuner has been watered down and harder to activate
70. Blocks custom overlays like Substratum theme from being installed
71. Puts an end to third-party call recording apps
72. Enterprise Mobility Management systems can set a custom home screen
73. Admins can hide certain UI elements in Android Pie
74. Ability to configure a device as a kiosk
75. Resized certain system icons

Android 9 Pie Features (Go edition)

1. Faster boot times
2. Up to 500MB of additional free space
3. Verified boot
4. New dashboard for data consumption overview
5. Improved security

The above is an exhaustive list of all the new Android 9 Pie features and improvements.

We will continue updating this article if we come across any other changes in Android Pie. And if we have missed any major feature that’s a part of Pie, drop a comment and let us know!