It is superb, actually. After I purchased my
Pixel 6 Professional in January 2022, I used to be assured to obtain
Android 15 in 2024 and two further years of safety updates. That labored out to 3 years of system updates and 5 years of safety updates. As of late,
Google is giving
Pixel 9 sequence patrons seven years of system updates and 7 years of safety updates. In the meantime, my
Pixel 6 Professional is just not speculated to obtain any extra Android updates following the discharge of the steady model of
Android 15.
Did the discharge of Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 embody a touch about prolonged help for the Pixel 6 line?
However at the moment’s distribution of
Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 might be giving us a touch about an additional yr of Android help at least for the
Pixel 6,
Pixel 6 Professional, and
Pixel 6a. Google launched at the moment the
Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 which is the primary Beta launch for the construct’s preliminary Quarterly Platform Launch (aka Pixel Characteristic Drop). The steady model of QPR1 will in all probability be the December function drop. The ultimate model of QPR 2 will in all probability be launched in March 2025 with the steady model of QPR 3 tentatively scheduled for June 2025.
If help for the
Pixel 6 sequence was supposed to finish with
Android 15, why was I capable of set up
Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 on my
Pixel 6 Professional at the moment? This could appear to be
a powerful indication that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Professional will get not less than one other yr of system help to Android 16. This has not been introduced by Google and is merely hypothesis at this level. Even wishful pondering, maybe. Nonetheless, all three telephones within the
Pixel 6 line sport a Tensor utility processor below the hood which implies that extending help is feasible.
And even when the Pixel 6 line would not get Android 16, Google will in all probability permit it to obtain the steady model of Android 15 QPR1 in December which might be previous the October finish of help date for the road. In spite of everything, why permit the telephone to put in the Beta if it will not get the ultimate model? And if Google permits the Pixel 6 line to maintain help as much as the final Android 15 QPR launch in June, it would as nicely preserve going to the discharge of Android 16.
How do I be a part of the Android 15 Beta program?
There’s an underlying feeling amongst
Pixel 6 and
Pixel 6 Professional homeowners that Google owes them one thing for placing up with these telephones which have been at all times having points. Whereas personally I would not flip down a free
Pixel 9 Professional XL to make up for having to take care of my 512GB
Pixel 6 Professional, extending system help might be Google’s means of attempting to appease those that really feel that they have been shortchanged by the corporate.
If you wish to set up
Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 in your Pixel, go to the Android Beta program web site at google.com/android/beta or
faucet on this hyperlink. When you’re on the Android Beta web site you may need to press the button that claims “View your eligible gadgets.” You will be despatched to a web page displaying an image of the Pixel mannequin you personal. You will see a button to opt-in to the Beta. Faucet on it to hitch this system, and you may obtain an replace to put in. The QPR Beta releases are extra steady than your conventional Android Beta releases which implies that you in all probability can set up at the moment’s replace with out concern or trepidation.
After you opt-in to the Beta, go to Settings > System > Software program replace and observe the instructions. Since Google has already launched Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1, should you’re nonetheless within the Beta program, you can not exit until you need to wipe your Pixel telephone. The following time you can exit the Android 15 Beta program with out having to carry out a manufacturing unit reset will likely be in December when the ultimate model of Android 15 QPR1 is launched.
