And until now, Android hasn’t given users a reliable way to check what’s going on under the hood. Google is quietly rolling ...

The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature in Android 16 lets Pixel phones use their fingerprint scanners even when the screen ...

In Android 16 DP2, Google introduced a "Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock" option on the Pixel 9 series. As the name indicates, ...

With Android 16 Developer Preview 3, Pixel 6 and newer devices can be unlocked using the fingerprint scanner, even when the ...

Your Pixel phone should perform better in GPU benchmarks after updating to the most recent Android release. Here's why.

Google Pixel phones have always required the screen to be active for the fingerprint scanner to work. However, with the ...

Android 16 beta 3 is allowing older Google Pixel phones to catch up with Android phones from other manufacturers with its new Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock settings (spotted by Mishaal Rahman at ...

The update will be available for all Pixel phones with under-display fingerprint scanners from the Pixel 6 onward.

The latest beta build of Android 16 brings a new feature to Pixel phones that lets users biometrically unlock the device without ever waking up the screen.

Here's everything about Android 16, from its release date, to the list of eligible devices and features that make the cut for the final release.

The recent Android 16 Beta 3 (and Beta 3.1) release updates a feature limited to the Pixel 9 and allows all devices from the Pixel 6 and newer to use fingerprint unlock while the screen is off.

In the latest beta build of Android 16 for Pixel devices, Google has enabled the ability to unlock your device using the ...