Google rolling out new April OTA for Pixel 7, Fold, and eight house owners [U]

Google in the present day launched new Android 14 QPR2 builds with the April 2024 safety patch for the Pixel 7, 7 Professional, 7a, Fold, 8, and eight Professional, although there isn’t an on-device OTA replace in the intervening time.

Replace 4/18: In keeping with some experiences over the course of in the present day, Pixel telephones on Verizon are getting a brand new on-device OTA replace. It is available in at underneath 7 MB, however the service has but to replace its changelogs. In the meantime, there aren’t any experiences of the OTA on different carriers (like Google Fi).

Unique 4/17: This comes two weeks after the standard replace, with these mid-cycle/month Android 14 QPR2 releases not recognized on Google’s Manufacturing facility/OTA Photographs website. Assuming Google didn’t overlook to use a service label, this may recommend they’re the worldwide builds as a substitute of a construct for customers in a specific nation that haven’t gotten the April replace but. There’s no further Pixel Pill replace in the present day.

B1 is appended to the Pixel 7/Professional, Pixel 7a, and Pixel 8/Professional builds numbers, whereas the Pixel Fold goes from A1 to A2. This additional implies it is a minor replace.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Pixel house owners already on the April safety patch aren’t seeing new on-device OTA updates. We’ve reached out to Google for extra info.

Android 14 QPR3 — presently on Beta 2.1 — isn’t anticipated till June, so we’re in a single for a extra minor replace subsequent month. Android 15 Beta 1 is out, with the dearth of NFC (for tap-to-pay) being a dealbreaker for every day driver utilization.