Source: The Android 15 update for Pixel phones won’t roll out next month
Android 15 may have the longest delay between its source code drop and Pixel OTA release.
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- According to a source, the Android 15 update won’t roll out for supported Google Pixel devices next month.
- In fact, we heard that the update may not even roll out until the middle of October.
- Google declined to comment when we reached out for a statement.
This year has been a bit unusual for Google’s hardware division. Not only did it significantly move its launch timeline forward but it also released four, instead of two, new phones in its latest Pixel lineup. Because the Google Pixel 9 series released a full two months earlier than usual, the Pixel team couldn’t ship them with this year’s Android 15 release as it wasn’t ready yet. In fact, the Android 15 update for Pixel phones still isn’t ready, and I’m told that Google might not even roll it out next month either.
Historically, Google has rolled out major Android version updates for its Pixel devices at (or around) the same time it has released the source code. This is despite the fact that, within Google, the Pixel hardware team has historically been separate from the team responsible for AOSP, a separation that no longer exists as of this year. Here’s a table that compares when Google released the source code for a new Android version to when it rolled out the corresponding update to its Pixel devices.
