6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (479+ words) You pick one of the Pixel 11’s stylized Camera Looks, shoot with it all afternoon, close the app — and the next time you open the camera you are back on the standard processing. It looks like a bug. It is not....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (297+ words) Video Boost is the Pro-only feature that uploads a clip to Google’s servers after you record it. Cloud processing then returns an improved version. On the Pixel 11 Pro series, that returned file has been coming back with bursts of static…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (293+ words) Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is an ARM hardware feature that tags chunks of memory and traps code that reads or writes outside what it was allocated. It exists to catch memory-safety bugs — the category Google itself said in 2022 accounted for…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (259+ words) The account that started the thread came from someone who had just moved to a Pixel 11 Pro XL and filmed a house show to try out the camera. On playback, they found bursts of static repeating roughly every five seconds…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (189+ words) Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 is rolling out to Pixel phones, and it is the build that matters most in the cycle: this is the one that reaches Platform Stability, meaning app-facing behaviour is now locked ahead of the stable release. The odd…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) Android 17’s Motion Assist Reaches Pixels With a Key Overlay Fix AndroidPure Android 17’s Motion Assist Reaches Pixels With a Key Overlay Fix Motion Assist, the Android 17 accessibility feature meant to reduce motion sickness when you use your phone in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (343+ words) Small as it sounds, it is the change with the clearest consumer logic behind it. A status bar is a scarce, permanently visible strip of screen, and an assistant claiming space in it by default is a product decision made…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (369+ words) Pixel Camera 11, the version shipping on the Pixel 11 series, has quietly rebuilt the app’s manual controls — and then hidden them behind two separate walls. The redesigned Quick access controls are switched off out of the box, and even after you…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (344+ words) How to Change What Double Pinch Does on Your Pixel Watch 5 AndroidPure How to Change What Double Pinch Does on Your Pixel Watch 5 Your Pixel Watch 5 double pinch does one thing per context, and until recently you had no say…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (255+ words) Two bugs are fixed as well. 9to5Google publishes the changelog: opening the notification shade and Quick Settings could cause visual corruption and an unexpected device restart, and the Device Health and Support tool was showing users false battery capacity degradation warnings....