Google has announced the January 2022 Android security patch update for Pixel devices. All Pixel smartphones except for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro will receive the update starting today. Eligible devices include the Google Pixel 5a, 5, 4a 5G, 4a, 4 XL, 4, 3a XL, or 3a. Factory images and OTA files are now available for those devices.
The Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro’s January update, unsurprisingly, is delayed until later this month. Google ran into issues with the Pixel 6 series’ December 2021 Android security patch. Not many users received the update upon initial rollout, and many of those who did claimed they experienced call dropouts. The company then announced in late December that it had paused the update so it could work out some of the bugs. In that statement, Google said it planned to have a fix for the call-dropping issue by late January.