This week was already shaping as much as be an enormous one for Google’s cell platform, with Android 17 QPR2 lastly getting its steady launch alongside the November Pixel Drop for Google’s telephones, and now we’re already getting our newest preview of what’s coming to Android in 2027 with as we speak’s launch of Android 17 QPR3 Beta 4.
In comparison with Beta 3’s exhaustive record of modifications, Google’s Beta 4 changelog is way more restrained, and the corporate solely particulars a handful of latest fixes:
Admittedly, these reminiscence leak and Bluetooth issues sound fairly extreme, and that keyboard glitch may very well be extremely irritating for affected customers. Should you have been experiencing both of them in an earlier QPR3 construct, be sure you replace to Beta 4 as quickly as attainable.
Google’s Mishaal Rahman additionally factors out the return of a lacking characteristic on this launch:
Simply needed y’all to know that we heard your suggestions on the lacking “disable absolute quantity” Bluetooth setting, and we introduced it again. It has already been restored within the Android 17 QPR3 Beta 4 launch (Settings > System > Developer choices > Bluetooth > Disable absolute quantity) for beta testers, and it ought to roll out for everybody else within the steady Android 17 QPR3 platform launch.
Should you’ve received a Pixel 6a or later Pixel gadget and wish to get on Google’s testing monitor, first again up all of your cellphone’s information, after which go forward and register your {hardware} with Google’s Android Beta for Pixel program.
