Vivo X90, iQoo 11 Set to Obtain Android 14-Based mostly Funtouch OS 14 With Improved Multitasking, Safety Options

Vivo X90 and iQoo 11 might be up to date to Funtouch OS 14 over the course of this month, the smartphone producers introduced on Friday. Funtouch OS 14 is predicated on Android 14, the most recent model of Google’s working system for smartphones. After putting in the replace, customers can have entry to raised multitasking options, improved personalisation choices, and new safety and privateness options, in keeping with the corporate. Both Vivo and iQoo are but to formally announce a timeline for the rollout of Funtouch OS 14 to all supported smartphones.

Both smartphone makers introduced the rollout of Funtouch OS 14 to their smartphones by way of press releases on Friday, confirming that the replace would arrive on the iQoo 11 on October 7, whereas the Vivo X90 would obtain the replace “later this month”. According to iQoo, eligible smartphones will start to obtain the replace later this yr or early subsequent yr, whereas Vivo states that the replace will roll out to different units after the Vivo X90.

With the Funtouch OS 14 replace, customers will see improved system efficiency with a brand new RAM Saver function that’s able to conserving extra apps energetic on the identical time, by decreasing the variety of persistent processes and optimising as much as 600MB of reminiscence for handsets which have 8GB or extra RAM. An App Retainer function can even bear in mind and restore the standing of whitelisted apps when they’re opened later.

Multitasking can be set to obtain an improve with Funtouch OS 14, and customers will have the ability to maintain as much as 12 small home windows energetic within the background and entry them simply whereas conserving their major app open. These will embody journey hailing apps, video apps, or chat functions and these apps will be switched with a single faucet, in keeping with a press launch issued by the smartphone corporations.

Just like Android 14 that was rolled out to Pixel smartphones on Wednesday, the Funtouch OS 14 replace will introduce new personalisation and customisation choices, similar to the flexibility to customize the clock on the lock display screen, new color palettes and a brand new monochrome theme that’s able to saving energy on the smartphone.

New safety and privateness options are additionally making their technique to customers with the Funtouch OS 14 replace — notifications will not pop up when display screen mirroring is enabled, and hidden pictures might be protected by a further password, in keeping with the corporate.