{"id":257493,"date":"2026-05-28T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/one-ui-9-could-give-users-a-killswitch-for-android-17s-restrictive-background-playback-controls\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:35:11","slug":"one-ui-9-could-give-users-a-killswitch-for-android-17s-restrictive-background-playback-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/one-ui-9-could-give-users-a-killswitch-for-android-17s-restrictive-background-playback-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"One UI 9 could give users a killswitch for Android 17&#8217;s restrictive background playback controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/one-ui-9-android-17-background-control-3671962\/\">One UI 9 could give users a killswitch for Android 17&#8217;s restrictive background playback controls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/one-ui-9-android-17-background-control-3671962\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/one-ui-9-android-17-background-control-3671962\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 04:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Jones \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung may be bringing additional controls for Android 17\u2019s upcoming Audio Hardening features.<\/li>\n<li>While Google has designed them to be active by default, One UI 9 could let users disable them if they want.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, One UI 9 may automatically add all web browsers and games to the list of distracting apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Samsung is among the few manufacturers that go above and beyond to customize native Android features to align with its own apps and services, visually or functionally. With the upcoming One UI 9, Samsung is working to incorporate two new features that will work under the hood to improve your experience. One of them offers more control than Android 17 natively provides on Pixel devices.<\/p>\n<p>With Android 17, Google plans to crack down on apps that unexpectedly play audio in the background and possibly startle you. It is called \u201cBackground Audio Hardening,\u201d and it\u2019s already available in Android 17 Beta 4. The feature essentially requires apps to either be present in the foreground, either directly on your screen or through a music playback service.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung, whose own browser also serves a similar utility, may have found a workaround to the problem. We\u2019ve discovered that Samsung has added a toggle that lets users disable Audio Hardening if it restricts them in some way. The toggle is present in One UI 9 Beta 2, which was recently rolled out to testers.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"One UI 9 audio hardening watermarked\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-scaled.jpg 1182w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-30w-64h.jpg 30w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-1000w-2167h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-665w-1440h.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-498w-1080h.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-399w-864h.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-175w-380h.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-554w-1200h.jpg 554w\" alt=\"One UI 9 audio hardening watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/One-UI-9-audio-hardening-watermarked-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Aamir Siddiqui \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>The option is tucked deep in developer options, but you can find it under <strong>Settings  Developer options  More settings <\/strong>on a Galaxy S26 running One UI 9 beta. It\u2019s difficult to say whether the option remains when One UI 9 moves to its stable phase.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the strings in One UI 9\u2019s source code, we can tell the option has been added by Samsung. Meanwhile, if you wish to disable it on Android 17 on Pixel phones, you will need to use ADB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the toggle for audio hardening,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/one-ui-9-android-17-background-control-3671962\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One UI 9 could give users a killswitch for Android 17&#8217;s restrictive background playback controls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/OneUI-9-splash-screen-S26-Ultra-phone-lay-down.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-257493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257495,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257493\/revisions\/257495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}