Google today delivered the Pixel Update for April 2022, and it looks like Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro users won’t have to wait to get it for a change.
“We have provided the monthly software update for April 2022,” the Google Pixel Support Team writes in a new post to the Pixel Phone Help support site. “All supported Pixel devices running Android 12 will receive these software updates starting today. The rollout will continue over the next week in phases depending on carrier and device. Users will receive a notification once the OTA becomes available for their device. We encourage you to check your Android version and update to receive the latest software.”
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Changes and fixes in this release include:
Battery and power. Additional improvements for wireless charging performance with certain accessories on Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro only.
Camera. A fix for an issue causing front-facing camera preview in certain apps to appear zoomed in, and a fix for an issue occasionally causing a green screen to appear in camera preview, both on Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro only.
User interface. Here, Google has delivered several updates for all supported Pixels, including:
Supported Pixels include the Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5, Pixel 5a (5G), Pixel 6, and Pixel 6 Pro.
dftf
<p>And yet you go to the Pixel6 area on <em>Reddit</em> and whenever someone reports an issue, they are downvoted to oblivion and all the comments are to the effect of "Pixel 6 here, works great, flawless, no issues".</p><p><br></p><p>I suspect <em>Google</em> had a bad-batch of <em>Tensor</em> chips during production and just decided to ship them regardless. As I cannot otherwise see why there are such disparities between people’s experiences with the same device!</p>
dftf
<p>20.77MB here on a <em>Pixel 3a</em></p><p><br></p><p>Annoying in the Release Notes you linked to that they haven’t addressed the widely-reported issue (affecting all <em>Pixels</em>) where the "recent-apps list" / "task-switcher" sometimes jumps to the app you were last in, rather than the current one, causing users to close-off or screenshot the wrong one.</p><p><br></p><p>They also haven’t fixed how the Split-View mode breaks if you have "Remove animations" turned-on.</p><p><br></p><p>And also no option to disable the new "minimise app" animation, introduced either last-month or February, where when you return to your homescreen, the app you are in shrinks-down into the homescreen icon.</p><p><br></p><p>Be nice if some of these were addressed next-month, in the final update for the 3a, but I’m not holding-my-breath…</p>
dftf
<p>A "select all" is generally not wise to offer, as more-often users accidentally delete all e-mails in a folder (such as their <em>Sent Items</em>) and struggle to get them back. Often more trouble than it’s worth to offer it.</p><p><br></p><p>If you regularly have to delete all e-mails in a particular folder, why not either just unsubscribe to those e-mails, or setup a rule to either delete them for you, or move them into the <em>Junk</em> (aka <em>Spam</em>) folder, or <em>Deleted Items</em> (aka <em>Trash</em>) folder, where "delete all" is usually an option?</p>
dftf
<p>I’m not going to guide you through step-by-step, I’m sure you could use <em>Google </em>for yourself to find an article, or even go on <em>YouTube</em> and find a video of someone showing how to do it!</p><p><br></p><p>But if you constantly get e-mails that are junk, why not report them as-such and they should eventually go straight to your junk or spam folder?</p><p><strong>support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You can create filters on the website version of GMail, but as the rules are processed on the server-side, you will see the same changes apply in the app versions. Explains about using rules here:</p><p><strong>support.google.com/mail/answer/6579</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And info on blocking e-mails, or reporting ones as spam:</p><p><strong>support.google.com/mail/answer/8151</strong></p>
dftf
<p>Apologies, I misread your original post and thought you did have a Gmail account.</p><p><br></p><p>Regardless, you can also setup rules in the website versions of other popular services, such as <em>Outlook </em>and <em>Yahoo! Mail</em> also. You might be out-of-luck if you use an obscure e-mail provider though, like one provided by your ISP with your Internet-service.</p><p><br></p><p>I’m still confused as to your use-case though for regularly needing "select-all". I’m assuming <em>either</em> you delete junk e-mails out of your <em>Inbox</em> folder, then do "select all" to then move all the good e-mails to a different folder. Or that you do the reverse, and move-out all the good e-mails, then do select-all and delete-out all the bad ones?</p>