Let’s go back to talking about one of the most disappointing aspects of the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the current top of the range of the Mountain View giant, or the fingerprint reader. Since the arrival on the smartphone market, many users have complained about the poor accuracy of the reader and, so far, despite all the software updates released monthly by Google, the situation has not improved that much.
Some good news comes from a Reddit user who reported clear improvements to the performance of the fingerprint reader of his Pixel following the installation of the Android 13 beta 2, released just a few days ago.
Google Pixel 6: Android 13 improves fingerprint unlocking
As mentioned at the beginning, unlocking via the fingerprint is one of the Achilles heels of the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, smartphones without the possibility of being unlocked via the face: users are often forced to try several times before their fingerprint is actually recognized and, indeed, everything ends with the appearance of the screen to enter the unlock PIN, a symptom of too many attempts made.
Reddit user just_lurking_through, who still got his hands on claiming that he wasn’t one of those who complained too much about the fingerprint reader of his Pixel 6 Pro, pointed out how the scanner’s performance has significantly improved, both in terms of speed and in terms of reliability, once the beta 2 of Android 13 is installed, also sharing a video to test everything.
However, the user feels not to recommend to everyone the installation of the beta 2 of Android 13, still too full of bugs, especially if the Google Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Pro were your main device.
This is a piece of advice that we would like to give you too, especially considering that the development of Android 13 has not yet entered the phase of “platform stability” which, if Big G continues to respect the roadmap, will be reached in the month of June (a month in which the new Pixel Feature Drop will also arrive, which could also bring facial unlocking, but only for the Pro model).
In general, therefore, there are good hopes that the arrival of Android 13 can give a second youth to the current top range of Google, the first two smartphones of the new course launched last year in conjunction with Android 12, going to file some problems again. unresolved, including the cumbersome fingerprint reader.
Meanwhile, we are very curious to find out how the fingerprint reader of the mid-range Google Pixel 6a will behave , since Google itself has confirmed that the dedicated hardware will be different than that present on the older brothers.