by dbadmin | Dec 23, 2025 | Android 16, Google, News
TL;DR Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1.1 is available now for Pixel 6 and newer devices. Beta 1.1 arrives just a week after Beta 1, and attempts to resolve issues with app crashes. What does everybody want on Christmas Eve Eve? Freshly fallen snow? How trite. Peace on Earth and...
by dbadmin | Dec 23, 2025 | Android, Android 16, Features
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority With Android 15, Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, but it soon expanded to...
by dbadmin | Dec 20, 2025 | Android, Android 16, Features, Google Home, Smart Home
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Android 16’s first major update made me fall back in love with Quick Settings. After Android 12 took away the smaller toggles and switched to the large pill-shaped buttons in the name of Material You, I started using Quick...
by dbadmin | Dec 19, 2025 | Android 16, Google, Google Pixel, Guides
Google’s last couple of QPR updates for Android 16 have been nothing short of incredible. QPR1 brought Google’s excellent Material 3 Design UI to Pixel phones, while this month’s QPR2 update added new customization tools, an upgraded dark mode, and a ton more. Now,...
by dbadmin | Dec 18, 2025 | Android 16, Google, Google Pixel, News
TL;DR Google’s been working on a new toggle for its At a Glance widget for Pixels, controlling its home screen visibility. The option first started working for some testers in last month’s Android Canary release. Now we’re also seeing access begin to roll out for...
by dbadmin | Dec 18, 2025 | Android 16, News
TL;DR Android 16 QPR3 is set to introduce support for the newly released Unicode 17.0 standard and its emoji. The update includes 163 new characters, featuring additions like a distorted face, fight cloud, and orca. You can view these new emoji right now if you...
