{"id":100007,"date":"2025-05-14T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100007\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:50:09","slug":"google-release-android-16-beta-4-1-with-a-sprinkling-of-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100007\/","title":{"rendered":"Google release Android 16 Beta 4.1 with a sprinkling of fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_bh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"android 16 official logo 1\"  alt=\"android 16 official logo 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/android-16-official-logo-1-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 16 Beta 4.1 delivers fixes for a handful of extant bugs.<\/li>\n<li>Beta 4 itself arrived back on April 17.<\/li>\n<li>With plans to hit stable in June, Google doesn\u2019t have long left to finish prepping Android 16.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier today, Google drew the curtain back on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-material-3-expressive-features-changes-availability-supported-devices-3556392\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Material 3 Expressive<\/a>, its latest design language revision that\u2019s set to debut later this year following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-june-release-confirmation-from-google-3556496\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stable release of Android 16<\/a>. While we\u2019re understandably a little bummed that we\u2019ll have to wait just a bit longer to go hands-on with all the changes (despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-new-design-changes-leak-3549582\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many early previews<\/a> we\u2019ve already seen), Google still has something new for us to check out today, as the company shares the latest point release of its Android 16 Beta.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been just about one month since Google published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-beta-4-3545798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android 16 Beta 4<\/a> for Pixel devices in its testing program. Not only was this our second big Platform Stability release, bringing us that much closer to the day Android 16 stable would would be ready for business, but that was our first chance to try the software out with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-9a-review-3545425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel 9a<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/16\/release-notes#beta4.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> has just released Android 16 Beta 4.1. If you were already testing Beta 4, just chill and wait for your update notification to arrive. Like other recent point releases, this one is all about bugfixes:<\/p>\n<p>Haptics have been a real thorn in Google\u2019s side with Android 16, and this isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019ve seen a patch attempting to set things right. The battery drain problem also sounds like an issue we\u2019ve seen pop up in development before, so hopefully Google is getting to the bottom of things now.<\/p>\n<p>With the Beta 3 cycle, it was only a matter of days between the initial release and the first 3.1 update, itself swiftly followed by 3.2. The fact that it took this long for Google to go from Beta 4 to 4.1 could easily suggest that we\u2019re close to the end of the road when it comes to these fixes. With June right around the corner, Google doesn\u2019t have long left to put all the finishing touches on Android 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-beta-4-1-3557414\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Beta 4.1 delivers fixes for a handful of extant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2239,867,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-100007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android-16","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114504625580770088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}