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Google adds toggle to divorce the Assistant from its corner gesture in Android 12 Beta 3
If you feel like keeping gesture navigation but don't want the corner-swipe
In hindsight, it was a curious omission, but when Google debuted the diagonal swipe gesture to trigger the Assistant in Android Q/10, the only way to disable it was to change navigation modes or just straight-up disable the Assistant as your assistance app. Now, as of Android 12 Beta 3, it's something you can separately disable if you'd like to.
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- The issue with YouTube's picture-in-picture not working with the new fully gestural navigation system has been fixed in Beta 4, and exiting YouTube via gestures no longer stops playback. The overlay for picture-in-picture opens successfully (assuming you have YouTube Premium).
Android Q Beta 3 introduced a new iPhone-esque navigation bar with back gestures at the left and right edges of a phone‘s display. While this redesign of Android's most fundamental feature will take some time to get used to, one question was left open from the beginning: How to invoke Google Assistant on devices that don't have the Pixel's squeeze option? Well, it turns out there's a rather hidden gesture for that.