Let’s tell you what are the news Android 16 QPR2with which Android 16 receive news and new features. These updates are released by Google every few weeks for its Pixel phones, and it is like a launch of new functions.
This is a 700MB update, so it’s a good idea to have this free space on your Pixel phone. Remember that this is a periodic update of Google mobile phones, while other manufacturers such as Samsung also have new releases. However, as they are novelties designed by Google, there is always the possibility that they will end up reaching other mobile phones in the future.
What’s new in Android 16 QPR2
Below, we leave you the entire list of new features of this new Android 16 update for the Pixel.
- More shapes for icons: You can now choose between different specific shapes for app icons, which can be round, square, teardrop-shaped, and more. They are applied both in the application drawer and in folders and desktop.
- AI Notifications: Google’s artificial intelligence will summarize your notifications, condensing long messages and group chats into them. Additionally, the AI also groups and silences low-priority alerts.
- Extended dark mode: It is an option that forces all your apps to show their dark mode, even if this application does not support it.
- Linux graphical interface: Android has a Linux environment, and now it supports apps with a graphical interface from the interface.
- Mark calls as urgent: The application Google phone It allows you to indicate that the call you are making is urgent, something that will appear on the screen to the contact who receives it.
- Subtitles with emotions: The automatic subtitles generated by Google AI already transcribed into text, but now they also show labels that indicate the emotion conveyed by the voice, in addition to environmental sounds.
- Security improvements: Added a delay in the delivery of SMS with OTP verification codes, and the function Secure Lock to lock the mobile remotely. Furthermore, the function of Circle to search It can also detect scams that appear on the screen.
- Unlock with fingerprint without turning on the screen: On Pixel 9 models and later, you do not need to touch the screen or use the always-on mode to display the option to unlock the screen with your finger.
The update with these new features is now available for all Google phones from Pixel 6a onwards. To update, you have to go to the settings, enter System and go to the section Software Updatewhere it will already be waiting for you to accept it.
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