Android 12L with March Feature Drop carrying out to Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, OTAs presently live

Following a two-week delay, Pixel 6 and 6 Pro proprietors today are beginning to see the Android 12L update with the March Feature Drop carry out. Earlier this month Google released its tenth Pixel feature drop containing new supported languages for Live Translate, Live Sharing in Duo calls, and more. And keeping in mind that the most recent patch had already been carried out to older gadgets (from the Pixel 3a to the Pixel 5), today the update started showing up on Google’s latest flagships: the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.

The Pixel 6’s Android 12L update brings a slew of UI and functional tweaks – detailed here – as well as a few patches. Altogether, 76 issues have been tended to on Google’s latest phones.

First spotted by Android Police, notwithstanding new software features, the update likewise brings various general performance upgrades like better thermal and battery the management and faster fingerprint recognition. However, maybe considerably more importantly, the patch additionally contains a small bunch of bug fixes including a solution for a new issue that was making Pixel 6 phones to randomly disconnect from WiFi.

In the meantime, a handful of features declared with the March Feature Drop is exclusive to the Pixel 6 family. This incorporates Live Caption for Calls, where you can compose reactions that are read aloud on the opposite end, and Night Sight in Snapchat (app update required). In the meantime, Spanish and Italian are currently supported by the Recorder app and Live Translate. Interpreter Mode today additionally works in those languages, as well as French.

One of the biggest feature is the Battery gadget for Bluetooth gadgets, similar to earphones. After updating to Android 12L, you should see an update for Settings Services in the Play Store. A short time later, search for that “app” in the Widgets list to put “Battery” on your home screen.

At a Glance on the lock/home screen will likewise surface battery data, earthquake alerts, safety check countdown (Personal Safety), and a helpful brief to switch off alerts assuming that tomorrow is a holiday. In any case, this capability has not as yet launched.

The present a decent day for proprietors of Google’s latest smartwatches. The organization has at long last begun the rollout of the latest update to the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The March feature drop for still-supported Pixels was declared fourteen days prior, and the updates have been going out to every one of the different Pixels this time.

Presently the most current and most prominent can at long last get their taste as well. This release ought to ideally fix a two-month-old Wi-Fi reception bug, along with numerous different fixes. This is accordingly a quite large update for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro and on the off chance that you have either phone it’s likely best not to defer its download and establishment once you get the notice that it’s accessible for your gadget.

At long last, for Pixel 6 proprietors on Verizon, Google’s March update is likewise adding support for the carrier’s new 5G C-band spectrum, which went inhabit the start of the year on January 19th. Verizon claims it’s C-Band 5G ultimately depends on 10 faster than 4G LTE, and that following its new sending, the organization’s Ultra Wideband 5G currently covers more than 100 million individuals across 1,700 US cities.

While it’s a piece disappointing to see Google’s latest feature drop show up to keep going on the organization’s latest (and generally costly) phones, taking into account that the Pixel 6’s WiFi burdens were brought about by the past January update (which itself was pushed back from December), it’s a good idea that Google deferred its release a bit. What’s more, ideally, Google utilized that additional opportunity to figure out any new bugs in the March update. However, in view of the organization’s new history, that may be altogether too hopeful.

This being Google, however, that notification might take (many) days, or even weeks to show up on all handsets. When you in all actuality do get the new build, assuming you’re in the US you’ll be eager to realize that both new Pixels presently gain access to Verizon’s 5G C-Band network, in this way having “access to the full power of 5G Ultra Wideband”. As such these Pixels are the first non-Apple, non-Samsung gadgets to help that band.

If you can deal with a manual introduction, OTA zips and factory pictures are as of now up at Google’s site – however, in the event that you don’t have the foggiest idea of what any of that implies, it’s ideal to hang tight for the over-the-air rollout to arrive at your phone.

There is no carrier-specific builds, while this update likewise enables C-Band support on Verizon. You can install through the ~490MB OTA or flash/sideload immediately:

Pixel 6 – SP2A.220305.013.A3 – Global – Factory Image – OTA