Google has dropped its newest line of Pixel telephones for 2025, and past being the corporate’s finest telephones but, they’re brimming with nice options price benefiting from.
Whether or not you’re upgrading or switching to Pixel for the primary time, right here you’ll discover a shortlist of helpful suggestions and methods which can allow you to get extra out of the Android 16-based expertise provided up by the Pixel 10 collection.
With a few exceptions, all of those function walkthroughs apply to everything of the Pixel 10 line (the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Professional, Pixel 10 Professional XL and Pixel 10 Professional Fold); nevertheless, there are a few upgrades lined which might be unique to Google’s new Professional fashions solely. Learn on for the complete run-down.
Flip Professional Res Zoom on or off
In case you picked up the Pixel 10 Professional or 10 Professional XL, some of the vital digicam upgrades is Professional Res Zoom. Constructing on their predecessors’ Tremendous Res Zoom, Professional Res Zoom boosts the utmost telephoto seize magnification from 30x to a whopping 100x.
Relying on how near launch you acquire your Pixel 10 Professional or 10 Professional XL, there’s an opportunity you don’t have Professional Res Zoom enabled by default. Equally, as Professional Res Zoom provides the usage of generative AI to boost picture constancy above 30x (successfully ‘making up’ picture particulars it ‘thinks’ must be current), not everybody will recognize the function’s inclusion as a part of these new Pixels’ photographic expertise.
As such, right here’s the way to allow/disable Professional Res Zoom on the Pixel 10 Professional line.
HOW? In case your Pixel 10 Professional solely zooms in so far as 30x out the field, you’ll must obtain the Professional Res Zoom mannequin. To do that, first open the Digital camera app, and from right here, faucet the Digital camera Settings icon (it contains a cog image, partially obscured by a digicam image). The icon must be within the bottom-left of the viewfinder when holding your cellphone in portrait.
On the following card that pops up, faucet the icon with the three dots within the top-right, simply to the fitting of the phrases ‘Picture settings’.
It is best to now be wanting on the full-screen ‘Digital camera settings’ menu. On the backside of the ‘Basic’ part, you need to see an entry referred to as Mannequin obtain. Faucet on this.
If Professional Res Zoom isn’t but downloaded onto your Pixel, the following ‘Mannequin obtain’ menu is the place you’ll discover the choice to obtain it. Simply faucet on the downward arrow icon subsequent to ‘Professional Res Zoom’ to obtain the function.
As soon as downloaded, once you return to the viewfinder, you need to now discover that you simply zoom all the best way as much as 100x.
Equally, if you wish to disable Professional Res Zoom fully, the downward arrow icon on the ‘Mannequin obtain’ display talked about above will as a substitute be a trash can icon. Faucet the trash can and on the following pop-up titled ‘Are you certain?’ faucet Uninstall to fully take away Professional Res Zoom out of your Pixel.
Observe: If the 100x choice doesn’t instantly seem after downloading the mannequin, merely shut the digicam app fully, reopen it and check out zooming in once more.
Create a Calling Card
As a part of Materials 3 Expressive – the appear and feel of Android 16 on the Pixel 10 collection at launch – Google has added a slick new function referred to as Calling Playing cards.
Just like iOS’ Contact Posters, Calling Playing cards act as personalised full-screen posters for key contacts in your deal with guide, with the flexibility to decide on particular images and add customized font kinds and colors too.
HOW? To create a calling card, open the Contacts app and faucet on a contact out of your deal with guide that you simply need to make a calling card for. On the chosen contact’s display, beneath the shortcuts to name, message, or electronic mail the contact, you need to see a immediate field titled ‘Attempt including a calling card’. Faucet it.
On the following calling card creation display, select from the Digital camera, Gallery and Google Photographs buttons alongside the underside to seize or choose an acceptable photograph for the particular person whose contact card you’re creating.
When you’ve picked a picture, you possibly can transfer (by dragging with one finger) and resize (with two fingers) the picture till it’s framed to your liking on the contact card.
When pleased with the picture’s positioning, you’ll additionally discover totally different font decisions – represented by a collection of ‘A’s – alongside the underside of the display. Faucet on the totally different ‘A’s to use totally different fonts to your chosen contact’s title. Subsequent, choose a color from the swatches beneath the font choices.
When you’re pleased with each of those particulars, hit Accomplished within the top-right of the display. You’ll then be taken again to the ‘Edit contact’ display, at which level you possibly can faucet Save within the top-right to save lots of your newly-created calling card.
Observe: If the ‘Attempt including a calling card’ choice doesn’t seem once you open up a contact throughout the Contacts app. As an alternative, faucet the pencil icon within the top-right and faucet on the picture on the fitting aspect of the ‘Image and calling card’ field close to the highest of the display.
If the choice nonetheless doesn’t instantly current itself, ensure that the Contacts and Telephones apps are totally closed, then discover the Cellphone app in your Pixel’s apps drawer, long-press on the app icon and on the following pop-up menu choose ‘App data’. Scroll to the underside of the Cellphone app’s App data web page and below ‘Retailer’ faucet ‘App particulars’.
You’ll then be pushed to the Cellphone app’s web page on the Google Play Retailer. From right here, faucet Uninstall, and on the following pop-up, faucet Uninstall once more. As soon as the app updates have been uninstalled, merely faucet the Replace button and look forward to the Cellphone app updates to redownload and reinstall.
As soon as put in, open up the Contacts app once more and observe the unique directions above. The choice so as to add a calling card ought to now be accessible.
Test for AI-altered pictures with Content material Credentials
The Pixel imaging expertise has lengthy been about making use of machine studying to imagery to boost the ultimate end result. Nonetheless, in recent times, Google has began piling on generative AI-based picture seize and enhancing instruments, like Magic Editor’s Reimagine function and Professional Res Zoom.
With a view to fight misinformation, Google just lately grew to become part of the Coalition for Content material Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), and one of many extra sensible advantages of its involvement is the addition of picture provenance inside Google Photographs and photographs taken utilizing your Pixel 10’s digicam.
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HOW? To examine a picture’s content material credentials, merely head into your Google Photographs gallery, faucet on a shot you need to know extra about after which swipe up to search out out extra concerning the picture.
On the backside, you need to now discover a How this was made part, which tells you key info just like the digicam the picture was taken with, and, within the case of Professional Res Zoom photographs bolstered by generative AI (for instance), extra tags to let you realize the picture was “Edited with AI instruments”.
Add music to your recordings with AI
Google’s native Recorder app is a good inclusion, with highly effective options akin to real-time transcription, however open it up in your Pixel 10 and also you’ll discover it’s gained a brand new trick: the flexibility so as to add AI-generated music. That is excellent for ideating songs or just including just a little extra pep to your voice notes.
Supplied you will have a recording saved throughout the Recorder app that’s 3 minutes or much less, you possibly can add music utilizing just a few faucets.
HOW? First, open the Recorder app in your Pixel. Subsequent, faucet on the recording you need to add music to. As soon as on the playback display, faucet the three dots within the top-right of the display. On the following pop-up card, faucet on the brand new Create music choice.
From right here, you’re required to Select a vibe for the type of music you need to add to your recording. You’ve got two principal choices: ‘Featured vibes’ or ‘Your vibes’.
‘Featured vibes’ is a collection of 5 totally different ‘vibes’, starting from ‘Chill Beats’ to ‘Dance occasion’. You additionally need to choice to decide on ‘Shock me’, which can robotically choose one of many different ‘vibes’ for you.
The ‘Your vibes’ part is crammed with musical remedies that you simply create. To create a brand new vibe, faucet on the Create new vibe button, you’ll then be requested to title your vibe, choose a style and a sense. When you’re blissful along with your decisions, faucet Save on the backside of the display. You’re newly created vibe will then seem within the ‘Your vibes’ tab.
Faucet on a vibe from both tab to assign it to your recording after which faucet subsequent. The Recorder app will then course of your audio, on the lookout for pre-existing rhythm and concord that it may well match music to.
As soon as it’s completed processing, you’ll be introduced with a barely totally different playback display than earlier than, with two waveforms.
You may faucet Play on the backside of the display to listen to your newly soundtracked recording. You may as well faucet on the thumbs-up or thumbs-down icons throughout the higher waveform to supply suggestions to the AI system on whether or not you want its creation. You may as well faucet Change vibe, and the app will re-process the audio with a brand new vibe of your selecting.
When you’re blissful along with your creation, faucet Save copy within the top-right of the display, and also you’ll be taken again to the primary Recorder app display, with the checklist of all of your recordings. Your new creation must be the brand new prime entry, with a title that references the vibe you connected to your unique recording, and an ‘AI music’ tag on the bottom-left of the entry.
As with every different recording within the Recorder app, you possibly can then share the audio file or a hyperlink to the recording, as desired.
Observe: The Recorder app robotically geese the music when making use of a vibe, that means speech ought to nonetheless be wholly intelligible and its quantity balanced with the brand new music.
You may as well edit or delete vibes you created by navigating to the ‘Your vibes’ tab, long-pressing on any of the vibes you’ve created and tapping ‘edit’ or ‘delete’ on the following pop-up menu.
Take heed to this web page
‘Take heed to this web page’ is a good assistive instrument that makes digesting internet pages much more handy, particularly once you’re out and about.
While studying a information story sat on the practice is straightforward sufficient, studying and in addition wanting the place you’re going is infinitely trickier: that’s the place ‘Take heed to this web page’ is available in.
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As long as you may get behind the (considerably stilted) robotic voice the function at the moment makes use of, the cellphone treats the narration like some other audio playback, that means you possibly can nonetheless lock your cellphone and slip it in your pocket. You’ll nonetheless be capable to hear utilizing headphones, too.
What’s extra, standard media management help helps you to pause/play and scrub by the timeline of a given internet web page seamlessly.
HOW? Open the Chrome internet browser in your Pixel and navigate to the web page you need to take heed to. As long as the function can parse what’s on-screen, you’ll discover the choice to have the web page learn out to you by tapping the three dots within the top-right. This brings up Chrome’s native settings menu, inside which you’ll discover the Take heed to this web page button, in the direction of the underside.
Enhanced Now Enjoying
Now Enjoying has been a formidable Pixel function from the get-go, capable of passively establish music inside vary of your cellphone’s microphones. The title and artist of any recognised monitor seem on the AOD (always-on show) and lock display, so you possibly can look down and discover out what it’s you’re listening to.
With Enhanced Now Enjoying – which is disabled in your Pixel 10 out of the field – Google’s added the flexibility for to function to robotically supply the related album artwork too. It makes it that little bit simpler to recognise a selected music or artist on-line or on retailer cabinets if you happen to go searching for out a selected monitor for your self.
HOW? To improve Now Enjoying to Enhanced Now Enjoying, open the Settings app after which faucet on Sound and vibration. Subsequent, scroll all the best way to the underside till you see Now Enjoying. Faucet on Now Enjoying to open up its devoted sub-menu display.
Partway down, you need to then see the choice to toggle Enhanced Now Enjoying on. As soon as enabled, any detected tracks saved inside your Now Enjoying Historical past (additionally discovered throughout the Now Enjoying sub-menu) will embrace album artwork, fairly than a generic musical notice icon.
Allow Superior Safety
With Google’s command of the net world, it stands to purpose that they’re additionally fairly well-versed at defending in opposition to a few of its extra unsavoury points, and that penchant for safety can be current on their telephones.
Whereas not enabled out the field, the Pixel’s Superior Safety suite does the whole lot from enabling theft detection lock (instantly locking your cellphone if it thinks it’s simply been snatched out of your arms by an assailant), activating Android Protected Searching, with risk detection, warning you about suspicious hyperlinks despatched through Google Messages, and extra.
HOW? To degree up the safety in your Pixel, open the Settings app, then scroll all the way down to and faucet on Safety and privateness. Inside the Safety and privateness sub-menu, below the ‘Different settings’ part, faucet on Superior Safety. On the Superior Safety menu, all that’s left to do is to toggle on the swap to the fitting of System safety choice.
Empower the ability button
As soon as upon a time, a cellphone’s energy button was used to energy the cellphone on and off, however in recent times, whereas they’re nonetheless used to show your cellphone on, they’ve principally been repurposed for different duties, leaving multi-button configurations the one approach to entry that all-important energy menu.
Within the case of the Pixel 10 collection, while a faucet on the ability button will darken your display and lock your cellphone, a long-press will as a substitute summon Google Gemini. There’s additionally a devoted Gemini app, an ‘Ask Gemini’ widget pre-loaded on the house display and the flexibility to activate Gemini by merely utilizing the “Hey, Google” wake phrase.
All in all, Google has made certain that granting fast entry to Google Gemini in your Pixel is properly and actually lined, begging the query: can’t the ability key simply be the ability key once more?
If, like me, you’re over urgent energy and quantity up each time you need to formally swap off or restart your Pixel, right here’s the way to reassign the ability button’s principal operate.
HOW? Head to the Settings app and, as soon as open, search for System – faucet on it. About midway down the System menu, you need to be capable to faucet on the Gestures choice. On the backside of the Gestures sub-menu, faucet on the entry labelled Press and maintain energy button.
The next ‘Press and maintain energy button’ display ought to present you that ‘Digital assistant’ is at the moment chosen, together with a slider that permits you to outline how lengthy it’s essential to maintain the ability button to summon mentioned assistant. To disable this function and reinstate the ability key’s unique performance, merely faucet Energy menu. Lengthy-pressing the ability key will now carry up the ability menu as soon as once more.
Observe: Even with this alteration, energy key + quantity up will nonetheless additionally summon the ability menu.
Increase show decision & refresh price
The Actua and Tremendous Actua shows throughout the Pixel 10 collection are among the nicest in the marketplace, however out-the-box you’re not getting the absolute best viewing expertise accessible.
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There are two settings price checking earlier than getting caught into residing along with your new Pixel: decision and refresh price.
Utilizing the Pixel 10 Professional XL for instance, whereas the cellphone comes with a 6.8-inch 1344 x 2992 120Hz OLED show, chances are high you’re viewing the whole lot in ‘Excessive decision’ mode by default, which clocks in at 1080 x 2404.
The upper the decision, the sharper issues will look on-screen, however the higher the drain on the battery too.
Equally, the display serves up super-fluid 120Hz visuals out of the field the place accessible, however this equally comes on the expense of battery longevity. As such, if you happen to aren’t fussed about excessive refresh price viewing, it could be in your finest curiosity to change the function off (which caps the viewing expertise at 60Hz as a substitute). In any other case, depart it’s.
HOW? Open your Pixel’s Settings app, faucet on Show and contact, scroll all the way down to the underside of the checklist to search out Display decision after which swap from Excessive decision to Full decision, to maximise picture constancy.
Equally, on the backside of the Show and contact part of the Settings app, you’ll additionally see Clean show. Chances are high, it’ll be toggled ‘on’ by default, however you possibly can swap it on and off as you favor from right here.