Someday in the not-too-distant future, your Android phone might try to hide the quality of your current cellular connection from you. The eagle-eyed folks over at XDA Developers noticed a recent commit to the Android Open Source Project that indicates an option has been added for carriers to disable user-facing signal strength from appearing in the SIM Status screen in Settings. However, the motivation for this change is a mystery.

SIM Status screen in Android 8.1

For the full technical details on how this change works, you can read XDA’s post.

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Signal strength may be hidden by carriers in a future version of Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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