Today’s smartphone has many features aimed at helping people with disabilities to use them.
Both Google and Apple roasting features in their operating system to reach disabled people.
Google Android 12 upcoming OS is set to go further with the features that users will control their cellphones with their facial expressions.
How does it work? We explain the features and what it does.
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Google has its own Android accessibility suite that has a set of tools and features that disabilities can be accessed on their devices.
The Camera Switches FeaturesWith the beta version of Android 12, Google has added a new feature called a camera switch.
What the camera switch is to allow Android users to interact with their devices without actually using the touch screen.
The camera switch comes to switch to access other accessibility services from Google.
With Access Switch, users can connect external devices via Bluetooth or USB to use their smartphone.
However, the camera switch took or two.
All you need is just a facial expression to control the smartphone.
How do you work? The camera switch has the ability to detect, for example, when you open your mouth and then can open the notification panel.
Or you can lift your eyebrows to do the same thing.
Photo Courtesy: Developer Xda.
What facial expressions work with features? Until now because in the beta phase, its features are a little limited.
The expression or movement of the face that is currently functioning is: Open the mouth; Smile; Raise eyebrows; Look to the left; Look right; and look up.
What can you do with that feature? You can go to the Home screen or return.
Or open the notification panel, scroll forward, scroll backward, fast settings, pause the camera switch, select the text among others.
Where features are available? Currently there is a pixel phone because the beta version is Android 12.
However, we can expect it to launch to all Android phones that will support the latest OS Google.