Last month we informed you that Google was engaged on an Adaptive Touch feature. A string of code discovered in February by Android knowledgeable Mishaal Rahman mentioned, “Touch sensitivity will mechanically alter to your setting, actions, and display protector.” In different phrases, rain or sweat, which usually would possibly cease a Pixel’s touchscreen from studying inputs, will work thanks to Adaptive Touch.
While Rahman discovered the code in Android 14 QPR3 Beta 1, he wasn’t positive whether or not the feature can be included with the Pixel 8a and Pixel 9. Now, per Android Authority, he says that new code present in the newest Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2 replace refers to Adaptive Touch as a “P24” feature which implies that it is going to be obtainable in the 2024 flagship Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro handsets. While the feature will debut on the 2024 Pixel 9 series, what is unknown is whether or not Google will-or even can-offer it to beforehand launched Pixel fashions.
Adaptive Touch is coming to the 2024 flagship Pixel 9 series. Image credit-Android Authority
This is a typical Pixel ploy utilized by Google. Offer a feature that debuts on the newest flagship Pixel releases and hold it solely on these telephones for a while so as to generate enterprise for them. After a while goes by, the feature might be pushed out to older Pixel fashions which are able to working the feature. Think how Google promoted the Magic Eraser for the Pixel 6 in 2021 and roughly a yr and a half later, it made the feature obtainable to all Pixel fashions. Even non-Pixel Android customers and iOS customers subscribed to the Google One cloud storage with the Google Photos app put in can use the Magic Eraser.
If Google does plan on releasing Adaptive Touch with this yr’s flagship Pixel 9 series, it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how a lot promotion such a feature receives. Is it the form of factor that may pull iPhone customers or Galaxy S series customers away from their present telephones and provides them the impetus to change to the Pixel 9? Probably not though it does not take away from the usefulness of the feature.