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Android Settings: the Pixel menu as Google ships it, from Android 13 to 17
Stock Android keeps Settings as one scrolling list of about twenty rows, each opening a page of its own. This article walks that list as it stands in Android 17 on a Pixel, explains what Android 17 rebuilt, and links every row to a screen you can open. The trees are generated from the Android source, not typed by hand.
- Newest release here
- Android 17
- Versions you can open
- 4
- Top-level sections
- 20 (4 of them plain switches)
- Rows in the tree
- 1,089
How Android organises its Settings
The list opens with Network & internet, Connected devices and Apps, then Notifications, Sound & vibration and Modes, the Do Not Disturb replacement that arrived in Android 15. Display, Wallpaper, Storage and Battery follow. Below the fold come System and About phone, then the trust group: Security, Privacy, Location, Accounts and backup, Parental controls and Safety & emergency. Accessibility and Tips & support close the list.
Android 17 rebuilt the System page. What used to be Languages, Keyboard, Gestures, Date & time, Users and Reset options is now grouped as Update device, Languages & input, Interaction, Automation & Intelligence, System management, Advanced and Manage data. Passwords, passkeys & accounts became Accounts and backup. A few Accessibility screens are declared in Kotlin rather than XML in the source, so they keep a menu row with no page behind it, which the simulator reproduces rather than inventing one.
What changes between versions
Four releases are here, and the tree is authored at Android 17 with the older rungs produced from their own source. Android 13 has Passwords & accounts and Do Not Disturb inside Sound & vibration. Android 14 renames that row Passwords, passkeys & autofill. Android 16 brings Modes, Parental controls at the root and Passwords, passkeys & accounts. Android 17 turns that into Accounts and backup and regroups the whole System page. Every rung's About phone reports the matching Android version.
Three settings worth knowing the path to
- Settings > System > Language & region
Android 17 regrouped System under headings such as Languages & input and System management, and this is the row for the phone's language and regional formats. Open it when the keyboard or the date format changed on its own.
- Settings > Privacy > Privacy dashboard
A timeline of which app used the camera, microphone or location and when. It answers most 'why did the green dot appear' questions without leaving Settings.
- Settings > Storage > Free up space
Storage is a root row on Pixel with a breakdown by Images, Videos, Apps and Files, and this entry hands off to the Files app's cleaner. Battery, by contrast, is a row whose page lives in another package, so it opens nothing here.
Questions people ask about Android settings
Why does my phone's Settings look different from this Android?
This is stock Android as Google ships it on Pixel. Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus and Huawei reorganise the list heavily; the simulator has One UI, HyperOS, OxygenOS and HarmonyOS as separate systems.
Where did Do Not Disturb go in Android?
Since Android 15 it is one of the Modes, on the Modes row between Sound & vibration and Display. Android 13 and 14 in the simulator still show it inside Sound & vibration.
Are these menus accurate?
The Android trees are extracted from the AOSP Settings source for each release, so the rows, order and wording are the platform's own. Device values such as the Wi-Fi name are samples.