Google is working on a feature called “Connectivity health” that will let Pixel owners figure out why their mobile data is crawling, why calls keep failing, or why Wi-Fi refuses to behave—and then walk them through fixing it. The option was spotted inside the latest version of the Pixel Troubleshooting app (v1.0.962958926) by Android Authority, which manually enabled the unreleased screens to see how the tool works.Once it ships, Connectivity health will sit inside the “Network & internet” section of Pixel settings. Open it, and the phone tells you whether it has detected a problem with Wi-Fi, mobile data, or calling. Three dedicated tools sit under it: Mobile data diagnostics, Call diagnostics, and Wi-Fi diagnostics.Of the three, mobile data diagnostics is the furthest along. Android Authority’s teardown shows it checking connection quality and speed, then suggesting fixes—in one case, telling the user to set Private DNS to “off” or “automatic.” It also generates a report listing every setting it changed along the way. Once the phone is happy, Connectivity health flips to a “Normal” status.Call and Wi-Fi diagnostics are stuck at their opening screens for now, with no troubleshooting steps loading behind them. Google clearly has more work to do there.This isn’t Google’s first attempt at built-in self-service repair. Pixels already offer guided troubleshooting for touchscreen faults and Bluetooth pairing trouble, so connectivity is the obvious gap to close.Connectivity health will most likely arrive in a future Pixel Drop, Google’s quarterly feature update for Pixel phones. The timing helps: the Pixel 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL go on sale August 20 with seven years of OS, security and Pixel Drop updates promised, and a phone kept that long will eventually need a way to explain why calls keep failing. Which Drop, though, is anyone’s guess—teardown code shows intent, not a release date.
