{"id":191183,"date":"2025-09-30T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:31:14","slug":"android-16-qpr1-beta-3-1-no-data-wipe-ota-rolls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191183\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 \u2018No Data Wipe\u2019 OTA rolls out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Android-16-QPR1-logo-2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After a prolonged delay (including <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/27\/pixel-vpn-wallet-android-16-qpr1-beta-3-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issues last week<\/a>), all Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 users are now seeing the \u201cNo Data Wipe\u201d OTA.<\/p>\n<p>The opt-out update started rolling out on <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/12\/android-16-qpr1-no-data-wipe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 12<\/a> for some Beta 3.1 users. (On our end, we only received the OTA on a Pixel Tablet.) As of this morning, it\u2019s now rolling out for everyone that left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/android\/beta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android Beta Program<\/a> (to avoid QPR2 and early bugs), including our Pixel 8a.<\/p>\n<p>On a Pixel 8a, this Android 16 QPR1 OTA is a small 39.57 MB update that takes devices from the July 2025 security patch to September\u2019s release (a week or so before\u00a0next month\u2019s update). Go to Settings &gt; Settings &gt; Software updates &gt; System update to download and install.<\/p>\n<p>The opt-out is usually pretty straightforward, but this cycle certainly presented issues. This OTA comes as those on Beta 3.1 were impacted by Google Wallet\/NFC tap-to-pay problems over the last few days. There were also issues connecting with the Pixel-exclusive VPN by Google.<\/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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_557_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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_871_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":"After a prolonged delay (including issues last week), all Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 users are now seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-191183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}