Google has released its monthly security update for the Pixel lineup, and as far as bug fixes go, the list for November’s patch is pretty small. The main improvements aim to improve battery life for the Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 devices. The 2022 flagships get “optimizations for display power consumption to improve thermal performance in certain conditions,” while last year’s Pixels are receiving a “fix for issue causing increased power consumption while certain apps installed.” Google doesn’t specify which apps those are.

This monthly patch also resolves bugs that could cause a green display flicker “in certain conditions” on the Pixel 7 devices, and the Photos app should no longer crash on Google’s latest phones “when using certain editing…

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