{"id":943806,"date":"2025-07-04T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943806"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:12:02","slug":"pixel-6a-to-receive-mandatory-android-16-update-from-july-8-amid-battery-safety-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/04\/pixel-6a-to-receive-mandatory-android-16-update-from-july-8-amid-battery-safety-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 6a to receive mandatory Android 16 update from July 8 amid battery safety fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has officially announced a mandatory update to Android 16 for all Pixel 6a devices, as part of its newly launched Battery Performance Programme. The update, set to begin rolling out from 8 July, is aimed at addressing ongoing battery-related concerns which have plagued the handset in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the Pixel 6a had been excluded from Android 16 eligibility, despite the update already being available across Pixel 6 to Pixel 9 models. However, Google is now making the update compulsory for Pixel 6a users in order to activate new safety measures that help mitigate potential risks associated with battery performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has officially announced a mandatory update to Android 16 for all Pixel 6a devices, as part of its newly launched Battery Performance Programme. The update, set to begin rolling out from 8 July, is aimed at addressing ongoing battery-related concerns which have plagued the handset in recent months. Until now, the Pixel 6a had been excluded from Android 16 eligibility, despite the update already being available across Pixel 6 to Pixel 9 models. However, Google is now making the update compulsory for Pixel 6a users in order to activate new safety measures that help mitigate potential risks associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}