Android 12 has starts rolling out for Pixel phones, Google announce at its Pixel Fall Launch event. The new Android version was first release as a developer preview in February and was detailes at Google’s I/O developer conference.
Google also made the Android 12 source code available to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) just earlier this month.
Android 12 brings a new design language that calls Material You, which is aim to enhance personalisation on Android devices.
There are also new privacy controls including the ability to let users share their approximate location with third-party apps.
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Features of Android 12
- Android 12 brings to your Pixel phone is the Material You design language.
- Android 12 is aimed to enhance personalisation on the device by allowing users to pick a custom colour palette and new widgets as per their choice and preferences.
- The new Android version also includes fluid motion and animations to deliver a fresh user experience.
- Android 12 is also claim to optimise the overall user experience with better power efficiency.
- Android 12 also includes underlying improvements to reduce CPU time needed for core system services by up to 22 percent and cut the use of big cores by the system server by up to 15 percent.
- By this helps make a faster and more responsive user experience.
- Google has also includes a list of new privacy-focuss changes in Android 12 to provide better privacy controls.
- There is a new Privacy Dashboard to detail permission settings and what data is being accessed by which app.
- There is also an option to grant approximate location permission instead of giving precise location details to third-party apps.
- A new indicator will also appear on the top-right corner of the screen when any installed apps access the built-in microphone or camera.
- Android 12 is also claim to deliver faster machine learning experiences and more responding notifications by reducing system-level latency.
- There is also support for AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) to improve image quality for the same file size when compare to older image formats, including JPEG. Additionally, Android 12 comes with a compatible media transcoding feature to improve quality and compression of videos.
List of All Eligible Devices to Get the Android 12 :
- Google Pixel 3,
- Google Pixel 3 XL,
- Google Pixel 3A,
- Google Pixel 3A XL,
- Google Pixel 4,
- Google Pixel 4 XL,
- Google Pixel 4A,
- Google Pixel 4A 5G,
- Google Pixel 5.
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How to Download Android 12 Update for Google Pixel Phones?
Follow These Steps :
- When the update reaches your eligible Pixel phone.
- You will receive a notification for its download.
- You can also manually check for the update.
- Go to System.
- Then head to Advanced.
- Lastly go to System update.
Android 12 will also be available pre-install on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones.
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