Android 15 stable update rolling out to Beta 4.2 Pixel devices

Abner Li | Oct 16 2024 - 2:34 pm PT

Following the OTA for those on Android 14 yesterday, Google is rolling out the update to Pixel devices on Android 15 Beta 4.2.

Android 15 Beta 4.2 was released in mid-August as the final update before the Android 15 QPR1 Beta started. Featuring the August 2024 security patch, it was later made available to the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro XL.

For those that did not want to start testing Quarterly Platform Release 1 (set to launch in December) and instead wait for the “final stable public Android 15 release,” Google’s instruction was to opt out of the Android Beta Program, and ignore the downgrade OTA to Android 14. They’ve had to do that for the past two months with no September update on their devices.

As of this afternoon, those on Android 15 Beta 4.2 are now seeing the 200~MB OTA (compared to over 1GB from Android 14).

Some features like Device diagnostics and Adaptive timeout from Beta 4.2 have been removed from the stable release.

Meanwhile, Android 15 QPR1 has not seen an update since Beta 2 on September 12. Google surprisingly did not patch a handful of bugs (screenshots not capturing, missing lockscreen shortcuts, not able to exit apps on lockscreen, etc.) in the weeks following. There will presumably be another update (Beta 2.1 or Beta 3) before the December release.