Google has begun distributing Android 5.1 Lollipop to Android One devices in the emerging markets, and details of its contents are trickling through, Digitla Spy reports.

The software will be an incremental update designed to address some of the minor issues of Android 5.0, both visual and technical.

Among the improvements is the ability to hide quick settings that have inadvertently been triggered, such as Invert Colours and WiFi Hotspot, according to Phone Arena.

Android 5.1 is also expected to restore silent mode, improve RAM management, solve notification issues, and introduce some visual tweaks.

Google is rumoured to be rolling the update out to other territories next month, but availability is expected to vary based on network provider, handset manufacturer and geographic location.

Although a new build of Android is on the way, figures released in early February suggest that version 5.0 of the software is running on less than 2% of devices.