Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today android 11 was finally released to
the public this is available for all pixel devices
from the pixel 2 on so the pixel 2 2 xl 3 3xl
3a 3axl4xl that i have here as well as the pixel 4a now it may be
coming a little bit later today to samsung devices or other devices as well
so hopefully we'll see it on the note 20 ultra
s20 ultra and other devices such as oneplus a little bit later
hopefully we'll see that fairly soon now the first thing
is i took a screenshot of the size and it was very small if you're coming from
the beta so you'll see it was 9.37 megabytes on this pixel 4xl
and that's because of the new update systems that are in place
once you're on android 11. future updates are very small they can insert
the updates as needed thanks to that new system and they can
install parts of the os dynamically using the play store
or google play services so updates tend to be very small now can
be downloaded over cellular to install it no problem
so it's really nice to see that also because i'm on the update here
you'll see we have cats i'll talk about that in a moment but you'll see on the
update here the build number is let's go to this
here we'll take a look at it in settings you can see the build number is
rp1a.200720.009 this will just tell you if you're on
android 11. i was a beta tester for this so i'm on that version but you'll see
here if we go into android 11's easter egg they've updated that as well
so now we have a little volume dial and let's do it again and then we'll do it
again and we can turn it up to 11 and then
you'll see there's a cat that appeared down at the bottom
and they've brought back cats like they had in previous versions
so let me show you how you get to that you press and hold the power button
and now we have an all new screen here so this is the new power screen
and i have bug report because i'm a beta tester once you uninstall that it won't
be there but this is the latest version so now we
have emergency so if you tap on emergency
you can call emergency services set up emergency information
and go to the dial pad we also have well let's go back here to the power menu you
also have power and it brings up power off and restart and then also you
have your controls now if you have google pay setup
or card set up they'll appear here you also have your home controls here as
well so if you want to see things like your
front yard living room or backyard and you're using nest cameras
they'll show up here now if we tap on these three dots
we can edit the controls you'll see we have some different controls there
we can add controls and it says loading you'll see the
different controls there see other apps and we have cat controls
so those are a little easter egg here you have a water bubbler food bowl and
toy hit save and now you can change between
cat controls and home controls it's a little goofy but if you tap to
refill this tap to use the toy a few times
you'll have a cat arrive to your phone via notifications so
it's just a nice little change something a little fun that they've added
now also on the power menu if you want to enable it you can enable
lockdown so just search for lockdown and what this allows you to do is if you
press and hold power you'll see lockdown and it will require
you to enter your password it will disable all biometric
inputs such as face scanning or fingerprint and
require the phone to have the password input in order to get back to the main
screen so it's just a safety feature if you
want to use that built right in now they've changed this a little bit as far
as multitasking so if you swipe up you can see that we
now have screenshot and select at the bottom so if we hit screenshot of course
it will just take a screenshot and then select will actually select
text on the screen so you can easily copy and paste text from
the screen paste it wherever you'd like and it's just a different way to access
that so they've changed around the multitasking menu a little bit of course
you can swipe the apps off if you want to close them and then you can swipe all
the way to the right clear all and they all go away now as
far as notifications go they've changed the notification shade a little bit
you'll see that the cat appeared i have do not disturb turned on but one
thing you'll notice is we only have six buttons in the quick settings at the top
that's on purpose it will stay like that all the time and now we have a new
conversations section as well so let me turn off do
not disturb we'll pull down here turn that off and we'll take a closer
look so now we have conversations notifications and silent so if you have
things silenced you can silence them press and hold and
you can change them to silent so this menu has changed a little bit you have
priority default and silent looks a little bit
different and you have the option to silence them you've got notifications
from things such as telegram here or your messages for chat
so they've changed that a little bit also in our quick settings area you may
have already noticed that we have music here so if we have
music playing let me just turn it down here
you'll see that menu has changed a little bit we'll turn this down so
that's now sectioned off and it looks a little bit different on the lock screen
there's no more album art it just tells what it is and it's playing in the
background so let's unlock the phone i turned do
not disturb on so these would go away we can hit clear all of course go back
turn that back on and our notifications will start coming
back in so they've just changed it a little bit
made it a little bit nicer and of course you have controls right here in your
notifications as well so it's really nice that they've updated like that
and then also they've added something to quick settings that people have wanted
for a very long time and that's screen recording so you've
got the option to screen record you can record audio from the microphone
show touches on the screen and plug in an external microphone to record audio
from that as well so you have that option just hit start
and now we're screen recording in three two one
there we go we're just scrolling around we'll hit stop
and then it saves it so you'll see it says save
we'll open it with photos
and you can see there's the screen recording so they've added that finally
it's built into the os and can be used anywhere now if i receive a text from
someone it should pop up like you would expect give it just a second there we go
and we can press and hold on it again make it priority
silent and we also have the option for chat bubbles depending on
what our settings are so depending on the application you can see
nothing can bubble all conversations can bubble
and we now have that option to make it a bubble now within the os there should be
62 new emoji as well along with different gender variants
skin tones everything from a rock to a polar bear to an olive
so should be an olive i guess we'll have to go to
here and you have different options now they
may or may not show up for you right away
but they should be there eventually there's 62 new ones with a bunch of
different skin tones as well now i know a lot of people love dark
mode and they've updated this a little bit to have
dark mode scheduling so you can see here we'll go into display
we've got dark theme and now you can turn it on until sunrise
you can turn it off whatever you'd like and
it's based off of scheduling so you can set that up that way
and it's nice that it's built in so it's just a nice little updated feature some
of the icons are updated as well now if you use picture-in-picture
maybe of youtube premium we'll swipe up here
we should get a little window we can resize that window now by grabbing from
the upper left so if we grab from the upper left of the
window it's a little bit tricky to do but you can resize it by grabbing from
the upper left of the window and then of course just close it out so
it's just a nice little change nothing huge but they have changed it on
pixel devices they've made a slight change to the styles and wallpapers
so if you're changing the style for example and maybe you want to change one
of these styles around customize it and then maybe not we'll
customize the font we'll go to next we'll choose an icon a color and now we
have some new shapes so there are three new shapes as far as
that goes we can go over to the end here we have a
couple different ones so we have pebble ticket
and octagon so you'll see there's a bunch of different ones
built in so just a slight change if you want to change it around like that
now within the share sheet you can now pin apps to the share sheet
so if we go to share and we scroll through our app list
while we're sharing maybe pinterest for example we can pin this
to save it so we can pin it and now it appears at the top so we can pin any of
these that we want we can pin gmail you'll see
it appears so now it's in a custom area for apps you use most often now also
within settings you can see your notification history so if you go to
notification history i don't have any because i didn't have it turned on
but you can see that if you wanted to keep track of it it's off by default
you can leave it off or you can turn it on and use it if you'd like to have it
now also something you don't see is exposure notifications that are built in
that will actually work a little bit better so if we look for exposure
there's exposure notifications built in it's off by default but if an
application wants to try and use it it can use it as long as it accepts your
okay from within the app itself so if you tell it it's okay to use it after
installing an app it will turn on without you having to mess with multiple
settings but again it's off by default now within
android 11 they've upgraded privacy quite a bit so it now allows a one-time
access to microphones camera and location when you're opening an app for
the first time for example or if you haven't used an app for a
while it may reset your settings to ask you if you want to allow those
things again so for example under microphone
you'll see microphone of course the camera probably wants to use it but
you'll see that you have the option to allow only while using the app
ask every time or deny so if i tell it to ask every time
we'll go home open the camera it will pop up and ask me
do i want to allow it only this time while using the app or deny it so
we'll use while using the app since that makes sense but it varies depending on
whatever you want and that's application to applications it's really
nice that they've added that there's a couple things you can't see
such as wireless android auto that they've added
also auto filling prompts it will ask you if you want to fill different
locations where you're filling in a bunch of information and
there are a bunch of little changes all throughout the os
so from on pixel devices you have suggested apps at the top
and other places throughout but those are the major changes of course
settings does look a little bit different privacy is always nice to see
them update that and there's a bunch of little changes
and tweaks if you're a developer you can go in and check out as well
so you'll see everything looks a little bit different it's got a nice refresh on
it and so far after using it it's been
pretty fast on these pixels so on the pixel 4a the 4xl i've used it
on different pixels and it seems to work just fine
and nice and fast so i would expect the same or better battery life
the same or better performance and it just seems to be getting better and
better so there's not a whole lot of other changes it's not a huge refresh
but there's a lot going on in the background
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
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