Google is within the means of releasing a much-anticipated replace for Pixel 6 telephones. Earlier right this moment, Android professional Mishaal Rahman famous that Google posted OTA and manufacturing facility photographs to its developer website for the January 2022 patch. Which means anybody can sideload the replace to their Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Professional now, and the official over-the-air replace has already arrived on some gadgets (together with some owned by Verge employees).
In an e mail, Google confirmed the rollout has begun, and that the software program will robotically roll out over the following week, relying in your gadget and wi-fi provider.
Utilizing the telephones’ built-in checker might begin the method now, and if it doesn’t, sideloading remains to be an possibility. Nonetheless, ready for the common rollout as an alternative of doing a handbook set up could also be one of the best ways to go, given the difficulty brought on by December’s replace.
This patch contains quite a few bug fixes and some new options that Pixel 6 homeowners have been anxiously awaiting. It’s alleged to tweak the fingerprint sensor, digital camera, and assist 23W wi-fi charging with the second-generation Pixel Stand. On the Pixel 6 Professional, you should utilize its ultra-wideband chip for digital automobile key entry to appropriate BMWs. This replace additionally provides the “Fast Faucet to Snap” integration that Google and Snapchat touted in the course of the gadgets’ launch occasion and new bass controls for the Pixel Buds A-Collection.
Google initially meant to ship these options within the December replace however halted and in the end eliminated the information from its website when customers complained of connectivity troubles after putting in the patch. Google says that the January replace has fixes for these bugs, and contains the December replace’s fixes to handle bugs which have pushed a minimum of one well-known Pixel 6 person to ditch the cellphone solely.
With the photographs public and one Canadian telecom firm citing Monday, January seventeenth for the discharge, we thought the patch would arrive subsequent week, but it surely’s already right here. That’s none too quickly for individuals who purchased the Pixel 6 or 6 Professional anticipating to get a premium gadget. Whereas the {hardware} is actually flagship-level, the software program expertise hasn’t all the time been clean.
Replace January 14th, 4:30PM ET: Up to date to mirror that the replace is rolling out now.
Replace January 14th, 4:55PM ET: Up to date to notice Google’s affirmation of the replace, and that it contains each the December and January modifications.
