For a few minutes, Google has started the release of Android 16 on all supported devices, or by Google Pixel 6 onwards, bringing all the news (mainly under the hood) of the new version of the operating system on smartphones and tablets and tablets and, in addition, all the news of the Pixel Drop of June 2025.

The Mountain View giant is usually released, normally with quarterly, real Chicche For your devices: therefore let’s find out what are all the news of this release of the features.

Index:

  • Pixel Drop of June 2025: all Google news for its pixels
    • The Pixel Drop of June 2025 brings the Pixel Vip widget with it
    • Google editor redesigned photo (available shortly)
    • Personalized stickers in the Gboard thanks to Pixel Studio
    • News for “expressive subtitles”
    • Functionality for acoustic appliances with Bluetooth Le Audio
    • Real time search in the magnifying glass app
    • News for the Regional App with the Pixel Drop of June 2025
    • News in the security field of the Pixel Drop of June 2025
    • Ability indicator in “battery integrity”
    • Tips in the Pixel camera app
    • Advanced protection methods
  • The functions of the Pixel Drop of June 2025 will gradually arrive

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Pixel Drop of June 2025: all Google news for its pixels

As anticipated at the opening, the release of Android 16 on smartphones and tablets of the Pixel range is accompanied by a Pixel Feature Drop (renamed for some time in Pixel Drop), a Release of features which begins today and will continue graduallythrough the update of apps and services of the Mountain View giant. It is thus introduced within the official press release released by Google:

Pixel devices become even more useful thanks to Pixel Drop. These are automatic software updates that send new features and upgrades of those existing to the smartphone, tablet, earphones and smartwatch, so that pixel devices can improve over time. For all the details on the June Pixel Drop, visit the Google Store Pixel Drop page.

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The Pixel Drop of June 2025 brings the Pixel Vip widget with it

The first news of the Pixel Drop of June 2025, already spoiled by Google herself yesterday, is the new widget Pixel VIP.

Pixel Vip It is a widget that the already existing widget will replace (on pixel devices) “Favorite contacts” of Google Contacts, the default column app on the devices Made by Google.

Google editor redesigned photo (available shortly)

We have already talked about it on the occasion of the tenth birthday of Google Photo but now it is official: theGOOGLE PHOTO EDITOR Redested will be available shortly.

The redesign provides primarily that all the modification tools, both those based on artificial intelligence and more “standard”, have been brought together in one place: just view a photo and make a tap on “Change”To start.


Among the available tools there are some that were initially exclusive to the Google Pixel 9 through the Magic Editor: the tools in question are King (allows you to modify a part of a shot through a prompt) e Autoframe (allows you to expand a photo to the desired size, with automatic filling generated by the AI).

By touching the subject, the background or any other part of the photo, the editor will provide suggestions designed to improve that specific area of ​​the photo. These are added to the “manual” changes that can continue to make the user.

Making a tap on “Ai Enhance” (probably “Ia improvements” in Italian), you access the suggestions based on artificial intelligence that will analyze the photo to identify which changes to make in terms of tone and color, cancellation of unwanted objects/subjects, blur, light, application of a bokeh effect and much more.

Personalized stickers in the Gboard thanks to Pixel Studio

All Smartphones of the Pixel 9 range can exploit the new functionality of the Gboard that integrates Pixel Studio’s generative IA technology to generate personalized stickers starting from a text prompt, also on the basis of a photo present in the gallery.

Google Pixel Drop - June 2025 - GBAARD custom stickers

News for “expressive subtitles”

Functionality Expressive subtitles they earn new ways of exposing the tone of those who are talking in the videos:

Whether it’s a whisper, a yawn or a cough, the videos will now offer more detailed coded subtitles, also for the live content or streaming that do not have pre-caricated coded subtitles.

Google Pixel Drop - June 2025 - expressive subtitles

Functionality for acoustic appliances with Bluetooth Le Audio

Another novelty of this release of features uses technology Bluetooth Le Audio (Low Energy Audio) to allow users to take advantage of hearing aid compatible with smartphone. Users will also have a settings suite to customize their use experience.

Real time search in the magnifying glass app

We had told you about it already in the afternoon but now it was made official as part of the Pixel Drop of June 2025: the app Magnifying glass receives the new functionality of Search for text in real -time imageswithout the need to take a shot before starting the search.

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News for the Regional App with the Pixel Drop of June 2025

The Recorder App earns two new functions with the Pixel Drop of June 2025. Thanks to the use of the AI, the app is now able to provide summaries of conversations, interviews and lessons also in French and German.

On the devices of the Pixel 8 range, a function that so far was exclusive of the most recent Pixel 9 has debuted: let’s talk about the mode Clear voice Which, taking advantage of the machine learning system for integrated audio, reduces the background noise of the recordings.

Google Pixel Drop - June 2025 - Clear Voice Pixel 8 Recordant

News in the security field of the Pixel Drop of June 2025

There is also room for two new safety features with the Pixel Drop of June 2025. The first concerns the function Sos satellite which lands in Australia to allow users to connect to emergency services even when their pixels do not have access to the mobile network or Wi-Fi connectivity.

The second is theExtension of the Safety Control Timeravailable on both smartphones and smartwatches, when the user needs it: in a nutshell, the user can add more time to the control already started without the need to start a new one.

Ability indicator in “battery integrity”

Some supported pixels (i.e. all models launched starting from Google Pixel 8a) can count on a more advanced version of the function Battery integrity Which also shows the residual capacity of the battery (it is a percentage compared to the “original” nominal value of the battery).

Android 16 DB4 - Battery integrity

Tips in the Pixel camera app

The Pixel camera app earns a new icon “?” placed at the top right in the user interface. Its goal is to help users to discover more on integrated features in the app through visual examples and clearer indications.

Advanced protection methods

There Advanced protection methods It is one of the most important novelties of Android 16, as well as the “most effective safety measure of Google for mobile devices”. With a tap, it activates a whole series of security functions that protect the user from online attacks. We talked about it in depth two weeks ago, following the release for the beta testers.

Android 16 - Beta 4.1 - Sicuezza and Privacy - Advanced protection

The functions of the Pixel Drop of June 2025 will gradually arrive

These were all the features of the Pixel Drop of June 2025designed by Google to make your smartphones and tablets more useful. The following table summarizes the availability of all the new functions, model for model (among those still supported).

Google Pixel Drop - June 2025 - Function availability

As usual, all the new features will be gradually released by the Mountain View giant through updates from the various apps (system and non -system) involved: our advice is to verify the presence of new updates on the Google Play Store.