With an imminent update, Google’s Pixel phones will no longer have light and dark versions of their startup screen, abandoning the all-white, shiny version.
For years, Pixel smartphones always displayed a startup animation with a white background whenever they powered on or restarted. With Android 10, Google brought the new Android dark mode option to this startup screen, replacing bold white with crisp black, but only when the phone was switched to dark mode before restarting.
As reported to XDA-Developers by the director of LineageOS luca020400, Google introduced a new change to the Android Open Source Project that changes Pixel phones to use the white boot screen animation only once. More specifically, the white boot screen is used only if the phone has never been set up after purchase or factory reset. After that, Pixel will always use the dark mode boot screen, regardless of how to switch to dark mode.
According to the message attached to the code change, the “Google UI team [has decided] always use dark boot after the device is provisioned. ”The change is apparently being made so that if you program your phone to restart for a late night update, the Pixel will not shine a blinding white light in your room – or wherever you keep the phone at night.
Since the change to always use a dark boot screen is only now appearing in the Android code, we will still need to wait for a future monthly Pixel update before our phones provide this particularly bright screen. the boot. Now, if only Google could also give this treatment to Chrome OS’s incredibly bright reboot screen.
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