

The only things that are iffy on the Pixel 7A are the fingerprint sensor, which isn't as snappy or reliable as I'd like, and the battery life. It’s disappointing that Google isn’t leading here, especially when Apple’s 5-year-old iPhone XR will receive iOS 17. Unfortunately, Google only promises three OS upgrades (Samsung offers four). It'll also get five years of security updates, so it'll be supported for quite a while. We've collected most of them below this guide, but my favorites are Assistant Voice Typing, for much faster and accurate voice transcriptions using the built-in keyboard Now Playing, to find out what music is playing around me without having to search for it and Call Screen, which has pretty much stopped all spam calls coming my way.


A part of the reason why we recommend Pixel phones so much is because of the many great software features that are genuinely helpful every day.
