In Android, and in turn on Pixel devices, the status bar has long shown the Wi-Fi, cellular network, and battery icons from left to right. But in the latest Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 release, Google ...

The design of these status bar ... phone design, the basic design of most status bar icons hasn’t changed in years. The icons for Wi-Fi signal strength, mobile data signal strength, and battery ...

like battery power (it looks like a battery), cell signal strength (four vertical bars of increasing height), and Wi-Fi signal (the vertical fan-like icon). With the increased popularity of games ...

Look at the top right corner of your phone. You might see an icon with “5G” and another with vertical bars showing the strength ... to keep your phone’s WiFi on so your device can ...

In other words, just because your friend’s phone has more bars doesn ... the wireless capabilities of different models. If in the past you’ve only considered, say, battery life and camera ...