{"id":270740,"date":"2025-11-04T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270740\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:15:11","slug":"lineageos-now-officially-supports-the-pixel-9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270740\/","title":{"rendered":"LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pixel-9a-Holding-Rear.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Almost half a year after launch, the Pixel 9a is now part of the official LineageOS build roster and comes full circle on <a href=\"http:\/\/LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pixel 9 series support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we are just off the back of the sizable Android 16 QRP1 update, there are bound to be Pixel 9a owners who want to at least trial the latest LineageOS 23 builds on their phones for even more control, customization, or just peace of mind with regard to privacy \u2013 albeit a smaller component here versus GrapheneOS.<\/p>\n<p>Given Google\u2019s delays in releasing Pixel kernel source code, if you opt to slap LineageOS 23.0 on your phone, you will be running a marginally out-of-date release, given that QPR1 supersedes this build based on the June release of Android 16. As we saw with the OnePlus 13 drop just a few days ago, this does mean you\u2019ll be running an older version and will miss out on the Material 3 Expressive update here.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a roadblock for some of you who might otherwise want to give LineageOS a trial run on a Pixel 9a. Moreover, we\u2019re just a few weeks away from the QPR2 release, which will exacerbate the issue further in the near future. The addition of new hardware to the LineageOS build roster has slowed over the past 12 months, but almost all recent Pixel hardware is supported within a few weeks of launch. This is one of the longest periods given Google\u2019s heel-dragging over source code.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re hopeful that the Pixel 10 lineup will be supported in the coming months \u2013 ideally before the potential mid-2026 launch of the Pixel 10a.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an intrepid owner, LineageOS 23.0 builds are not yet available to flash on the Pixel 9a, but we expect that to change over the coming days, and you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/download.lineageos.org\/devices\/tegu\/builds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can check here<\/a>\u00a0with detailed instructions available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.lineageos.org\/devices\/tegu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lineage website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on LineageOS:<\/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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/43RjEnY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-692991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761059949_28_imazing-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost half a year after launch, the Pixel 9a is now part of the official LineageOS build roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-270740","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\/270740","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=270740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}