{"id":285418,"date":"2026-07-03T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/i-found-3-android-17-settings-so-useful-im-confused-why-theyre-hidden-by-default\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:45:07","slug":"i-found-3-android-17-settings-so-useful-im-confused-why-theyre-hidden-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/i-found-3-android-17-settings-so-useful-im-confused-why-theyre-hidden-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"I found 3 Android 17 settings so useful I&#8217;m confused why they&#8217;re hidden by default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-changed-3-android-17-settings-and-my-phone-looks-so-much-better\/\">I found 3 Android 17 settings so useful I&#8217;m confused why they&#8217;re hidden by default<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-changed-3-android-17-settings-and-my-phone-looks-so-much-better\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-changed-3-android-17-settings-and-my-phone-looks-so-much-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-03 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android 17 is here on the Pixel (but later this year, many other devices will get it), and while everyone&#8217;s talking about the big features (like app bubbles), the changes I like most are the small ones you&#8217;d never find unless you went looking. Three hidden settings completely changed how my phone looks and feels \u2014 I can&#8217;t figure out why they aren&#8217;t on by default. Here&#8217;s how to turn on all three.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI found 3 Android features so useful I&#8217;m confused why they ship disabled<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Why aren&#8217;t these already on?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hide-icon-labels\">\n                        Hide Icon Labels<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"for-that-clean-minimal-look\">\n            For that clean, minimal look<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                          &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-changed-3-android-17-settings-and-my-phone-looks-so-much-better\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found 3 Android 17 settings so useful I&#8217;m confused why they&#8217;re hidden by default&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/feat.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-285418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285418"}],"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=285418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285420,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285418\/revisions\/285420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}