As introduced with the October Pixel (Function) Drop final week, Google is rolling out “Maintain near solid,” or faucet to solid, between Pixel Professional telephones and the Pixel Pill.
Replace 10/26: After utilizing it for a bit, we’ve discovered that Maintain near solid — which remains to be an unwieldy title — works reasonably properly.
Your Pill may be locked in Hub Mode on the Charging Speaker Dock, however your Pixel cellphone have to be unlocked, although the music app doesn’t need to be open. Tablet-shaped prompts, that are much like Watch Unlock, seem on the prime of your cellphone to notice the present standing and if you have to transfer nearer. As soon as efficiently transferred, an “Undo” button will seem for a couple of seconds.
On the Pixel Pill, you see a glow that generically approximates the place your cellphone is with a big streaming app brand.
Nevertheless, the bidirectional nature generally is a bit finicky. For those who don’t transfer your handheld gadget instantly out of the best way, the pill will need to switch the tune again to your cellphone. That stated, it’s a pleasant functionality to have if you’re leaving the room.
You solely need to allow the Maintain near solid setting in your cellphone. (It doesn’t even exist on the Pixel Pill, whereas we haven’t had luck enabling it on the Android 15 QPR1 Beta.)
Maintain near solid ought to have actually launched with the Pixel Pill in June of 2023. It might have actually highlighted the advantages of being within the Pixel Portfolio with each a Google cellphone and pill. Now that it’s right here, people who purchased the Pixel Pill sans Dock is likely to be satisfied to get the accent.
Unique 10/24: Faucet to solid was introduced again in January at CES as a part of Google’s continued work on multi-device experiences. It enables you to “Attain your cellphone towards a Pixel Pill to solid media.” This needs to be bidirectional and allow you to switch a tune each methods, with help for YouTube Music and Spotify initially introduced. Google right this moment notes how “Not all media apps work with this characteristic.”
It leverages UWB (Extremely-Wideband), amongst different wi-fi applied sciences, with a Professional-tier Pixel cellphone required — Pixel 6 Professional, Pixel 7 Professional, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, or Pixel 9 Professional Fold — and a docked Pixel Pill. In the meantime, “Your units have to be on the identical non-public Wi-Fi community to solid.”
To allow Maintain near solid, which is a clunky however technically correct and descriptive title, go to Settings app > Google > All companies > Solid choices in your Pixel.
We’re seeing this roll out with model 24.42.32 of Google Play companies, however it doesn’t look like extensively obtainable but.
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