- The next Pixel Feature Drop could arrive on November 4
- This could include theme packs to change the look and sounds of your phone.
- It could also let you create animated GIFs and stickers, and prioritize certain notifications.
If you have a Pixel phone, you don’t need to wait for new versions of Android to arrive to get new features, as Google routinely releases Pixel-specific ‘Feature Drops’. And the next of these updates could include some major updates for the best Pixel phones.
Leaker group Mystic Leaks (via 9to5Google) has shared screenshots and videos showing the supposedly upcoming features, and these include theme packs, custom animations, and prioritized notifications.
The most interesting of these are perhaps the theme packs, which, with a single tap, will apply a wallpaper along with matching icons, GIFs, and sounds. Initially, it seems like Evil: forever A theme pack consisting of the themes ‘For Good’, ‘Glinda’ and ‘Elphaba’ will be released, but we are hopeful that more packs will follow.
If so, then this could be an easy way to significantly change the look of your Pixel phone’s interface.
Create GIFs and give people the VIP treatment
Next, there’s the ability to turn an image or Pixel Studio creation into an animated GIF or sticker, and finally, there’s an update to the Pixel VIP feature, which will ensure that messages sent by people you designate as ‘VIP’ have their notifications highlighted in yellow and the person’s contact photo visible in the status bar.
The goal here is to make these messages easier to spot, so you don’t lose them in an avalanche of notifications, although keep in mind that this feature only works with messages sent via WhatsApp and Google Messages.
In any case, this sounds like a pretty good mix of updates, and the feature drop could be coming soon, with the leak suggesting a November 4 release.
But until this update is released, we’ll take these rumors with a pinch of salt, as while the images look credible, it hasn’t been long since the last Pixel feature drop. Additionally, as 9to5Google points out, we also expect to see Android 16 QPR2 before the end of the year, and this will also include a number of new features. So the supposed timing of this feature drop is a bit strange.
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