How to Disable Game Dashboard in Android 12

Sadique Hassan•Updated Nov 16, 2021

In this guide, we will show you the detailed steps to disable the Game Dashboard on your Android 12 device. The latest iteration of the OS has bought in quite a few noteworthy features. These include the likes of Material You design, Wallpaper based theme engine, Privacy Dashboard, and revamped Start Menu and Settings page. While all these are already documented across the web, there’s another nifty yet underrated feature that managed to slip out of the radar. As you might have guessed, yes, we are talking about Game Dashboard.

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What is Game Dashboard in Android 12

Game Dashboard beholds quite a few handy features that compliment your gaming experience on your smartphone. Some of its striking features include the likes of a built-in FPS Monitor that displays the current frame rate and a screen recorder/screen capture that allows you to take screengrab or record videos of live gaming sessions.

Talking about which, there’s also a shortcut through which you could directly live-stream your gameplay over to YouTube. Then there’s also an option to view your Google Play achievements, directly from the dashboard itself. Furthermore, it is automatically invoked as soon as you launch a supported game and appears at the bottom of the screen. So with such a truckload of features involved, why would anyone want to get rid of it?

Why I (And Many Others) Disabled Game Dashboard in Android 12?

No doubt the Game Dashboard offers a plethora of features, but for normal/casual gamers like us, we would hardly use any of these functionalities. We are just looking for a 10-15 minutes break to freshen ourselves with some arcade/causal/offline games and during this time frame, we aren’t interested in checking out the frames per second or live-streaming our gameplay to the rest of the world. Then the location of this dashboard makes the matter only worse.

Situated at the bottom right, it sometimes ends up covering a major aspect of the game. All in all, this feature isn’t a cup of tea and hence it’s better to keep a safe distance from this feature. So the best route forward is to disable the Game Dashboard feature on your device running the latest Android 12. If you also echo this thought, then follow along with the below instruction steps to disable this feature right away.

How to Disable Game Dashboard in Android 12?

To begin with, head over to the Settings menu on your device.
Then go to the Notifications > Do Not Disturb section.
Within that, scroll to the Schedules page.
Then tap on the settings cog icon situated next to Gaming.
Finally, disable the toggles next to Game Dashboard and Do Not Disturb for Games.

So with this, we round off the guide on how you could disable the Game Dashboard feature on your Android 12 device. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.

Game Dashboard Still Appears Even After Disabling it

So as of now, there’s has been an unwanted development surrounding this feature. Various users have voiced their concern that the Game Dashboard still gets invoked automatically as soon as they launch the game, even though they have explicitly turned it off from the Settings menu.

So what’s the plausible reason for its weird behavior? Well, this is a server-side issue and as of now, there doesn’t seem to be any workaround that could rectify this issue. As and when we get hld of the same or if Google releases a patch that fixes this issue, we will update this guide accordingly.