Android 16 Beta 4.1 drops its latest bugfixes, as development starts closing in on stable

Here's one more round of fixes, ahead of next month's Android 16 stable release.

May 13, 2025 - 23:19
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Android 16 Beta 4.1 drops its latest bugfixes, as development starts closing in on stable
  • Android 16 Beta 4.1 delivers fixes for a handful of extant bugs.
  • Beta 4 itself arrived back on April 17.
  • With plans to hit stable in June, Google doesn’t have long left to finish prepping Android 16.

Earlier today, Google drew the curtain back on Material 3 Expressive, its latest design language revision that’s set to debut later this year following the stable release of Android 16. While we’re understandably a little bummed that we’ll have to wait just a bit longer to go hands-on with all the changes (despite the many early previews we’ve 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.

It’s been just about one month since Google published Android 16 Beta 4 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 Pixel 9a.