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I've been using the Android 14 Beta for a while now so nothing really new to me for now, but what I liked since the beta is that the battery life got better.
The ability to give apps permissions on a per-file basis is also cool, although it made some apps unusable probably because they aren't supporting that right now (but maybe that changed or will change soon now that the stable release is out).
So what are the changes you noticed the most and which ones do you like or hate so far?
Without dealing with side loading, is there a trick to force a pixel 6 to update OTA on Google Fi?
I know in the past you could clear the storage for certain Google services on the device and it would magically find an update that it claimed wasn't available 10 seconds prior. But I've been out of the game for a bit. Do those tricks still work? My Google Fi pixel 6 doesn't show an update is available and I'm still on 13. I've only tried rebooting and trying again so far.
Have you tried this? I'm curious if it takes less time than OTA. It's an actual Google-made site.
https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/
OnePlus had an app called oxygen updater that you could use OTA files with. sad that Google doesn't have something similar because it was really useful
You can apply the OTA image over ADB if you're technical enough. Doesn't require too much.
It should hopefully not be long for you to get it - I got mine yesterday p6 pro on fi
I got mine a couple days ago and I'm on a Pixel 5.
Google rolls out updates in tiny batches and eventually increases the size of them.