Your Android phone may no longer stop you from walking into a pole

Credit: Roydon Cerejo / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing to deprecate the “Heads Up” pedestrian safety feature in Digital Wellbeing. Code strings in the latest Digital Wellbeing beta app reveal an impending in-app alert warning users that walking detection will be removed soon. Launched in 2021, Heads Up is an opt-in feature that uses motion sensors and location data to warn users to pay attention while walking when the screen is unlocked.