Last year, when the Pixel 8 Pro was announced, Google made a decent fuss about the introduction of a new temperature sensor on the back of the phone. You can use it to see if your tea is hot or your pan has cooled down — OMG, the technology! But as it turned out in our testing, that sensor wasn’t as precise as we would’ve liked, and despite the addition of body temperature measurement inside Fitbit, we all collectively forgot it existed. So did Google, as it turns out.
The Pixel 9 series has just been announced, and as you can see from the image below, the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL still sport that small circle below the flash light. The temperature sensor is still there, and it still does the same things it did on the Pixel 8 Pro, except that Google didn’t mention a blip about it during its press conference.