JR Raphael, IDG
And here’s the buried Android treasure to beat all buried Android treasures: While the taskbar is officially limited to appearing only on large-sized devices like the Fold, with a quick tweak to a tucked-away area of your system settings, you can actually enable it on any Google Pixel phone this minute — without dropping a single dime on any fancy new hardware.
Now, fair warning: This does require some fairly advanced and ambitious Android spelunkin’ (to use the technical term). And, again, it’ll work only on Pixel phones, as other Android device-makers like Samsung haven’t opted to implement the same feature into their software setup.
What we’ve gotta do is employ a teensy bit of virtual voodoo to trick your Pixel into thinking it’s bigger than it actually is — ’cause, again, the software is set to show that taskbar element only when it’s running on a device of a certain size.
