Android 11 can tell you when your Pixel 4 isn’t placed correctly on a wireless charger

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Near the end of aftermost year, Google unflawed a new strategy of bundling together new software tricks for its Pixel phones into "feature drops" instead of trickling those features out individually. Today, the convergence is announcing its second fondness drop, with much of the new stuff close-at-hand for the Pixel 2 and newer -- except some Pixel 4 exclusives in there.

It introduces a new Motion Faculty get-up-and-go for the Pixel 4 and 4 XL: just "tap" aloft your phone with a leveled hand (without enduringly touching it) to pause and resume music or other audio that's playing.

Personally, I'm someone who quickly vehement off Motion Sense, so I'm other excited barely the Pixel phones picking up other location-based smarts. "You can now set up a rule to automatically vertigo your ringtone when you connect to your think-in Wi-Fi, or go on Do Not Excruciate when you walk in the front door of your lodging to focus on the people and things that matter most," artefact mastermind Susie Denomination wrote in a blog post.

You can now automatically switch betwixt light and lightless themes based on the time of day, with things going lightless at dusk and switching back-up to normal at sunrise. There's also a new batch of emoji coming in this Pixel eolith with a focus on inclusion, wider gender variations, other couplet combinations, and other additions.

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If you use Duo for your video calls, Google is also introducing new AR getup that you can govern over your incomer when chatting with people. They move as you move and extravagate with your facial expressions. (These will personalized be close-at-hand on Pixel 3 -- not 3A -- and the 4.) "Selfies on Pixel 4 are securing better, too. Your front-facing camera can now create images with depth, which improves Portrait Becloud and dyestuff pop, and lets you create 3D photos for Facebook," Denomination wrote. The car detonation detection that launched on Pixel 4 back-up in the letup has disclosed to new countries as well.

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Last, holding down the power puny can now coincide up your Google Pay payment cards, tickets, boarding passes, and whatever elsewhere you've got in there. Speaking of boarding passes, Google says you can now just take a screenshot of a boarding pass barcode on your screen and add it to Google Pay with a tap.

Here's Google's support page that outlines when gathered will be available. Most of it should land this month starting with the Mugging self-defense update.