The latest Android versions have brought some of the major upgrades Android has received since its inception. Android 12 introduced Material You, which brought much needed interface changes, and Android 13 added quality of life improvements over Android 12, making it a more polished experience. Much like Android 13, Android 14 may seem like an incremental upgrade, but you'd be surprised how many internal changes it brings to improve the overall Android experience. Let's take a look at the top 29 Android 14 features as of the Android 14 December Feature Drop.

Before Photo Picker, one app had access to your entire media storage at all times. This was a privacy issue because it's not good to let one app access your entire library. Android 14 solves this problem with the Photo Picker feature. It's a new interface that lets you select only selected photos to ensure the app doesn't have access to all your photos.

Popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram already use the Photo Picker API. If an app has access to all your photos and videos, you can go to permissions and change it from "Allow all the time" to "Ask every time."

For screen flashes, you can also choose from a selection of colors and preview it to see how it will look before closing the prompt.