Android customers are about to get a lot extra choices for the way lengthy their shows keep energetic earlier than locking up.

In a primary have a look at the most recent Android 15 developer beta (by way of Android Authority), a brand new function known as “Adaptive Timeout” stands out. By going into your system’s show settings, you’ll individually set instances for the way lengthy it takes in your display screen to timeout once you aren’t utilizing it, in addition to how lengthy after that it takes for the system to lock itself.

The previous can vary from 15 seconds to half-hour, whereas the latter ranges from “instantly” to half-hour.

Past that, there’s an non-obligatory toggle that can cease your telephone’s display screen from turning off when you’re it by utilizing the front-facing digital camera. That is not strictly new, however there is a novel wrinkle to it: You can lock up early when you’re not actively it.

Clearly, something that retains your display screen off will lengthen your telephone’s battery life. The one bizarre a part of that is that a few of it type of feels like how smartphones have all the time labored. For example, iPhones can already set a display screen auto-lock time. Maybe there’s another angle to this that can rear its head as soon as the function is in folks’s palms, nevertheless it is not essentially the most revolutionary factor on the earth.

It should not be lengthy now earlier than we get a extra thorough and official clarification of function. Google is ready to speak about Android 15 at Google I/O in Might.