{"id":277580,"date":"2026-02-10T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277580\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:14:08","slug":"google-rolling-out-android-16-qpr3-beta-2-1-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277580\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolling out Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 patch\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Android-16-QPR1-logo-7.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 is rolling out to Pixel devices today. This patch comes almost four weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/14\/android-16-qpr3-beta-2-everything-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the last release<\/a>, and is surprisingly not Beta 3.<\/p>\n<p>CP11.251209.009: Pixel 6, 6 Pro, 6a, 7, and 7 Pro <\/p>\n<p>CP11.251209.009.A1: All remaining devices<\/p>\n<p>The last update was CP11.251209.007.A1. Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/16\/qpr3\/release-notes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a> do not identify what has been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>The OTA is a rather significant 123 MB on a Pixel 9a, and 98.39 MB on the Pixel 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/16\/qpr3\/download-ota?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OTA images<\/a> are also available, with the Pixel 10 series once again left out.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>This is still the January 2026 security patch, and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/16\/release-notes-qpr?hl=en#beta3.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> for all supported devices: Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold.<\/p>\n<p>If you were previously enrolled in Android 16 QPR3 Beta (and have not opted-out), you will automatically receive QPR3 Beta 2.1 and any future Beta updates.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 is rolling out to Pixel devices today. This patch comes almost four weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-277580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}