{"id":322161,"date":"2025-12-18T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:07:11","slug":"new-pixel-december-2025-update-rolling-out-battery-drain-touch-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322161\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pixel December 2025 update rolling out: Battery drain, touch fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pixel-6-family-with-Pixel-10-family-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some Pixel owners today are getting a new December 2025 update today after installing the initial release (<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/12\/02\/android-16-qpr2-pixel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16 QPR2<\/a>) at the start of this month.<\/p>\n<p>This OTA comes in at around 25 MB, with <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/GooglePixel\/comments\/1pp7g8d\/second_update_for_december\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> from owners of the Pixel 8, 9, and 10 series.\u00a0Verizon appears to be a commonality, though there are reports from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is not widely available as of Wednesday afternoon (PT), and it\u2019s unclear if all users\/carriers will receive this update.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the last out-of-cycle update <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/11\/01\/new-pixel-october-2025-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in October<\/a>, this might be a more limited patch. Google has not posted any <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/android\/images\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">factory or OTA images<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Update: Verizon has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/support\/google-pixel-10-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a> for BP4A.251205.006.E1 on the Pixel 8-10 series.<\/p>\n<p>Battery drain: Faster than normal battery depletion.<\/p>\n<p>Touch unresponsive: Intermittent touch failures observed specifically on Pixel 10.<\/p>\n<p>Cached content access: Inaccessibility of locally stored content (e.g., offline media, maps) after upgrading from Android 14 or earlier directly to Android 16.<\/p>\n<p>Updating\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More on Pixel:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764398113_665_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\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764398114_385_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":"Some Pixel owners today are getting a new December 2025 update today after installing the initial release (Android&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-322161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}