Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the android 11 march 2021 security update is now
rolling out to pixel devices and soon to other devices now you may already have it if you have
something like a note 20 ultra for example or maybe a few days later or a few weeks later
that's up to the manufacturer but it's currently out for supported pixel devices and you should
be getting it soon if you haven't already and that means it supports the pixel 3 3xl 3a 3axl 4 4xl 4a
and 4a 5g and pixel 5 that i have here and so this particular update brings a bunch of
security updates as well as this year's first pixel feature drop and so let's take a look at
the build number then we'll talk about what's new and as you can see here it says your system is up
to date and it's got the march 5th 2021 update even though it's not march 5th yet so let's take
a look at the build number and you can see here as it scrolls by it says 11 rq2a.210305.006 and this
particular update like i said brings security and more but let's first talk about the new features
and the first thing is voice recognition if you're using gboard to use it for text if that's your
main keyboard you'll have some updates coming soon if you don't have them already so if we go into
say docs for example and in google docs if you use the microphone button you'll have some better
voice recognition and enhanced voice recognition and better understanding and you can send commands
such as clear to clear things off now mine is not showing up yet normally you'll have a bar at the
bottom that shows like the google assistant even though i have the newest update it's not showing
but you can tell that with the little bar that's showing up and then i could say things like the
word clear for example and it would go back and clear things out for whatever reason it's not on
my pixel device but they do roll these out slowly unfortunately this feature is only available for
the pixel 4 series 4a 4a 5g and pixel 5. so that feature is not available for anything else but
you'll see it's keeping up nicely but it doesn't have the enhanced features just yet unfortunately
so hopefully i'll see that soon not everyone is seeing it just yet now to go along with that if
you use google recorder for example let's find that here in google recorder you can backup
your data and you'll back up automatically if you have recordings you can keep it offline but i want
to back it up it will back up to google drive and the new thing here is if i record a voice
text memo or whatever we're recording now you can now see these online after you're done using this
so it's similar to what we had before where we can access all of our different voice recordings
but now we'll be able to not only access the audio we can access the transcript online
and so i'll pause this here and i won't add a location and then i'll just save it as
pixel feature drop there we go i'll hit save and then it will save online and i'll be able
to see it at recorder.google.com as you can see here so if we go there we'll wait for it to load
and you can watch this we'll just go to my recordings here and now you can see my recordings
at the website here so recorder.google.com you'll be able to access this anywhere you have access
to the internet and you can go to your pixel feature drop and the transcript is there as well
although it's kind of overlapping here but you get the idea so it's there which is nice and
that's a slight update to this now another thing they've updated is smart compose smart compose
has been around for a while in google docs and gmail but the feature has been updated and will
support more apps in the future now this works really well if you've ever used it will go into
gmail so i can show you and maybe you want to email someone i can say hi how are you today
and it finishes it for me i can just swipe and it finishes the sentence it works really well
and it works online and everywhere else but they're bringing it to more apps the unfortunate
thing is this is only available to devices in the united states on pixel devices only and only in
english for now so hopefully they'll update that in the future now the next thing has to do with
google fit if you're using google fit there'll be some additional features soon now i'm not seeing
these yet unfortunately but one of them is you can now measure your heart rate when you go into
google fit and it will use your camera to measure your heart rate similar to what older samsung
devices did where you would put your finger over an optical sensor it would measure your
heart rate that way and it will also measure your breathing as well using the forward-facing camera
and some technology where it can see your chest move and sense your breathing so those things are
being added with the google fit update again i'm not seeing this but it is rolling out soon so if
you're not seeing it give it a few days maybe a week or so and it will roll out to everyone else
now there's some new wallpapers as well so if we go into our wallpapers here we'll press and hold
on the home screen go to styles and wallpapers scroll down and you'll see it says curated
culture now there's six new wallpapers and this is for international women's day 2021 and women's
history month and so there's some different ones by artists here you can see there's one
here's the next one and there's quite a few so you can pick from any of these six here
if you want new wallpaper of course i know a lot of people are always asking for my wallpaper which
i always link in the description but as you can see there's some new ones here for women's
history month as well now if you have a google pixel stand there's an additional feature that
will help you when you go to sleep with some new visualizations so let me see if i can turn
on bedtime mode and get it to come up i wasn't able to get it to come up earlier today and let's
see if i can get that to activate you can see my device is now black and white and that's to
sort of discourage you from using it to help you go to sleep so we'll put it on the pixel stand
and you'll see it's charging and we'll see if we get any different visualizations
and nothing new yet now again this is supposed to be rolling out with the feature drop
soon i'm not seeing many of the feature drop changes so we should be seeing more
soon but right now i'm not seeing anything now finally there's some updates to the camera that
will allow you to take underwater pictures if you have a kraken sports smartphone mount so
if you have one of those for the pixel 5 you can use the camera now underwater and
it will help you take better photos with things like night sight and portrait mode and more so
that's pretty interesting they're bringing that to underwater photography now as well so that's it
for the features but there's some bug fixes and improvements as well in this particular update
so for example for apps on all of the supported pixel devices there's a fix for an issue causing
android auto to disconnect in certain scenarios android auto should now be working properly and
stopped its disconnecting issues that it was having also there's some display in graphics
fixes for the pixel 4a 4a 5g and pixel 5 and that fixes an issue that caused full screen displays
to appear chopped in certain use cases so if you're having issues maybe tearing on the screen
those things should be fixed now as well there's also a fix for issues preventing the auto rotate
when you're using your phone and you have auto rotate activated that should be fixed as well
but that's only on the pixel 4a 5g and pixel 5. also there's a fix for issues causing the banner
battery indicator percentage to get stuck so maybe your battery isn't showing the proper percentage
that should be fixed as well and again that's actually on the pixel 4 a5g and pixel 5 only now
there's a few kernel updates to all of the phones as well so they all get a kernel update whether
that be for security or other fixes as well just to make it seem more responsive that's basically
the main underlying part of the operating system so that's been updated now within the system
interface there's a new fix for issues preventing the heads up notification for start contacts when
you're using do not disturb so that's been fixed in all pixel supported devices and then finally on
the pixel 4a 5g and pixel 5 there's a fix to prevent missed call notifications in certain
scenarios they haven't stated what those scenarios are but if you were missing your calls hopefully
they'll be coming through properly now now there's additional security patches in this update as well
so there is one android runtime patch eight framework patches five media framework patches
18 system updates one google play system update 20 kernel updates five qualcomm component updates and
23 qualcomm closed source component updates so a lot of security updates in this particular version
and i would highly recommend that you install it if you haven't already these feature drops are
really nice unfortunately they sort of roll out slowly and i'm not seeing them all yet
but we should have them fairly soon the nice thing is so far and using it for the past hour or two
i've actually seen no slowdowns whatsoever after it finished installing all the application updates
and things like that everything is nice and fast everything's responding like you would expect
and i haven't had any issues there whatsoever the other thing as well is battery has been great on
this phone i've been using it for quite some time and i've never had any issues it will stay really
dormant for quite some time without draining the battery all the way down days for example
it has great standby so no issues there and i'm pretty happy with the pixel 5 overall
so if you found anything else though let me know in the comments below and
of course i'll link this wallpaper like i said earlier in the description like i normally do
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