At least they got rid of the horribly designed all-in-one internet toggle, but this is still a pointless extra click. I have limited mobile data and disabling it helps with battery life. Stop being so pushy, Google!
Fwiw I don’t get that when I turn off my mobile data. I just tested it. Android 13 Google Pixel 5A
I have a Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G (2022). Never got this pop-up before I upgraded to Android 13. Perhaps it’s Motorola trying to assert dominance then.
Not Google, this has been added by the manufacturer of your phone. Probably they got too many complaints like “I disabled data and now there’s no internet” because average users don’t read what’s on screen
or more accurately users just have no grasp of what things come from. No shortage of times in tech support where I’ve heard things like “Yes I know the internet is down, I’m not trying to go to the internet I’m trying to go to facebook”.
I’m not able to reproduce this in my pixel 5, maybe Google removed this as a pixel exclusive feature? Or maybe because I used that adb command to separate the “internet” button in two buttons (WiFi and data)
Very much possible that Google changed it, since the buttons appear to be combined on Pixel devices. LineageOS and multiple other vendors definitely have it.
Not an android thing. It’s a vendor thing. Stop blaming Google for things it doesn’t do. There are enough other points to critizise about them
I didn’t get this pop-up before I upgraded to Android 13, and I have a Motorola phone that runs close to stock Android. So that’s why I thought this was a Google thing.
Anyone on Android 13 (near stock) who can confirm whether this is a vendor-specific thing?
This would become really annoying very quickly IMO
I’m on Android 13, on a Pixel 7 Pro, and I haven’t seen this at all. I still have the combined internet toggle, for mobile data and wifi.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On LineageOS 20 (android 13) I have the option of both the combined and the separate toggles, maybe you can configure it on your Pixel too?
I did go looking when I first got the phone (was a Samsung user for ~10 years before this) but I couldn’t find anything immediately obvious.
Honestly, I’m not as annoyed by it as I was when I first got the phone. I have Tasker managing my connectivity 99% of the time, so I rarely have to use this toggle.
I am on LineageOS 20 on a Fairphone 4 and just checked. It does indeed show this popup.
Thanks for checking - I’m on an FP3/Android 10 at the moment and eyeing moving to LineageOS because of the whole google fingerprint sensor downgrade issue.
Since you’re on Lineage already, any major/minor complaints about the experience in LOS 20?
I’m kinda curious as to whether apps like Nebula will work… currently OK on my rooted device with no magisk hiding necessary, but on LOS i’m not sure if proprietary google bits like widevine will be missing etc.
I only got my FP4 a couple of weeks back and have not had time to play around with it that much, I had an LG G6 before that and it decided to break so I needed something quickly.
My biggest issue is that it seems that the FP4 camera is not supported that well in LOS. The best I seem to get is OpenCamera, where I can take 4000x3000 12MP photos, everything else seems to only take lower resolution pictures. The phone is supposed to have a 48MP camera. From what I’ve read though it seems the original software is a bit hacked together to acutally get 48MP out of the sensor… I have to admin I cannot compare to the original software, as the first thing I did when I got the phone was unlock the bootloader and install LOS.
As for the google bits, I tried very shortly without it, but quickly noticed google services are needed for many things so I just installed them by installing MindTheGapps. I haven’t tried Netflix or Nebula though, so I don’t know if widevine is working, and I do not have root.
Not an Android thing, but regardless it’s better to turn on Airplane mode to shut off everything and then to turn on wi-fi.
Wow, that works with no annoying pop-up! I’ll do this any time I don’t need internet to save battery or avoid ads