Google is looking to disseminate patches for Pixel handsets that will speed up the time it takes for an OTA update to be installed.
, the patches took ten minutes or 43% off the time required to install a 2.2GB OTA update on a Pixel 6 Pro. The patches also reduced the time it took to install an incremental 376MB update to 16 minutes from 22 minutes .
Google introduced Seamless Updates for Android with Android 7.0 Nougat which was released in the summer of 2016. The first phones to receive the update were the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, and the Nexus 6P. But Google never demanded that manufacturers of Android phones include Seamless Update with their devices.
To keep it simple, Pixel models install OTA updates in the background on an inactive part of the phone. While this is happening, the active partition keeps running allowing you to continue using your Pixel as though nothing else was going on. When the installation is finished Pixel users are asked to reboot their phones as the inactive partition with the update installed switches with the active partition.
Google is working on making OTA updates faster. A new set of patches has been submitted to AOSP that speed up OTAs on devices that use the virtual A/B with compression update mechanism. Combined, these improvements bring a full OTA install time from ~23 minutes to ~13 minutes!
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