Android 16 QPR1 is nearly complete, as Beta 3.1 arrives

When it comes to Google hardware, August has arrived to usher in the latest lineup, and at this point we’re under a week away from the big Pixel 10 Made by Google event. But for as exciting as that is, we’re already looking forward to September, when it’s Google’s latest software that will be grabbing all our attention. That’s when we’re expecting Android 16 QPR1 to hit stable and have its rollout. But ahead of that day arriving, we’ve got what may be the final QPR1 beta to try out.

It’s been almost a month now since Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 arrived, and while we spotted a handful of changes that were incoming, like the magnified keyboard that first debuted on Android Canary, there weren’t a ton of user-facing tweaks that were new — just like we’d expect from a beta at this late stage, to be fair.

This afternoon, factory images for Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 have started appearing on Google servers. The build is labeled as BP31.250610.009, and just like previous releases, we’re seeing it for Pixel 6 and later models.

At the moment, Google has yet to update its QPR1 release notes, so we don’t have access to a list of what changes are present in Beta 3.1. Considering this is just a point release, though, and one arriving at a very advanced stage of development, we would not expect to see anything other than a few small bug fixes — much like the handful we got from Beta 2.1 back in June.

That said, we’re still curious to learn exactly what’s new here, so we’ll be sure to update this post once the changelog finally goes live. Users enrolled in the Android Beta for Pixel program should just sit tight at this point and wait for their updates to arrive via OTA notification.