Google makes April security update available for Pixel phone

Google is currently rolling out the April security update to a whole range of Pixel smartphones. More specifically, it concerns the models: Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.

April security update Google

Like every first Monday of the month, Google releases a security update for its Pixel phones that addresses various vulnerabilities in Android. Each month, Google also shares a list of all vulnerabilities that have been fixed, with an assessment of the severity of each vulnerability. This time, 19 bugs have been fixed in Android, none of which are considered critical. Another 25 errors are related to Qualcomm and MediaTek chips.

You can read more about it in the accompanying Security Bulletin of April. Google also always shares its custom security bulletin for Pixel phones, so you can also see which vulnerabilities specifically in the software of Google phones have been fixed. This bulletin is now online at the time of writing. Google has fixed five vulnerabilities on Pixels and none of them were critical.

Install update

Do you have any of the Pixel phones listed above? Then you will receive the update over-the-air (OTA) in the foreseeable future, ie it will appear in your notifications. You can also install the update manually and you can read exactly how to do that here. The Factory Images can be found here and the OTA files can be found here. If you don’t have a Pixel phone, you have to wait until the manufacturer of your phone has rolled out the update.

Have you received this month’s security update yet? Let us know in the comments below.

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