Pixel 9 phones can now run Android 15 QPR1 with new Beta 1.1 release
Some of them, anyway.
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- New Pixel 9 owners can start testing Google’s latest code with the new QPR1 Beta 1.1 release.
- Downloads are available for the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro XL.
- Besides this new phone support, QPR1 Beta 1.1 also resolves an issue with spontaneous reboots.
Last week, Google’s new Pixel 9 smartphones finally arrived, as retail sales opened and early orders shipped out. This year’s release of the new Pixel phones was a little unusual, though, as the hardware didn’t arrive running Google’s next big platform release — Android 15. And while we also saw Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 land last week, the software wasn’t yet compatible with the new Pixel 9 series. Today Google finally does something about that.
With Google’s new release of Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1.1, the Pixel 9 can now join in on testing not just Android 15, but this upcoming release likely to land as the December Feature Drop. The only actual change the company mentions is a fix for an issue that would cause phones to spontaneously reboot at random, and the big news here is really extending access to Pixel 9 devices.
