November Pixel Drop leak: What to anticipate

Each few months, Google delivers the newest large software program options to its personal smartphones by means of a Pixel Drop. A pair months again, the September Pixel Drop introduced us all a wholesome dose of Materials 3 Expressive, and ever since we’ve had a watch on Google’s Android 16 QPR2 betas to be taught what to anticipate from the following — presumably the December Pixel Drop. However now it appears like this replace might be hear earlier than we all know it, with a brand new leak outlining what to anticipate — and when.

Over on Telegram, Mystic Leaks shares an in depth report on what they characterize as a leak of Google’s November Pixel Drop. And particularly, they are saying to anticipate this one to land in only one extra week, on November 4.

For starters, we might be getting our very first Pixel theme pack. We’ve been monitoring progress on this Android addition since earlier this yr, with Google engaged on a brand new Theme Supervisor for rapidly altering the appear and feel of its platform by swapping out new wallpapers, colours, and icons. In accordance with this leak, our first theme pack may take its inspiration from the upcoming “Depraved: For Good” theatrical movie. With that set to premiere internationally on November 4, and within the US on November 21, maybe that timing might be a part of why we would get this Pixel drop sooner than deliberate.

First you’d enter a immediate to generate your preliminary picture. After that, tapping the “Animate picture” button on the backside of the display would carry up a brand new dialogue field asking you to explain precisely what you’d prefer to see your picture do. After giving Gemini a couple of moments to work on that (the supply suggests it might be Veo 3 and even the brand new Veo 3.1 behind this, however was unable to substantiate), you’ll see your animation and have the ability to export the clip to share.

Lastly, we’re listening to a few new characteristic for Pixel VIPs that may win over a few of you hold-outs nonetheless questioning what it’s good for. With this Pixel Drop, your VIP contacts may now attain out to you extra simply by precedence notifications. We haven’t but seen the main points on precisely how these would possibly work, however supposedly they’d solely help particular apps, with Google Messages and WhatsApp talked about as two.

That’s fairly the teaser, and now we’re simply wanting ahead to subsequent week to see if this launch truly occurs as foretold.