Your Pixel phone might be getting a big customization upgrade soon

Date:
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:21:17 +0000

Description:
The next Pixel Feature Drop could land soon with theme packs, custom GIFs,
and prioritized notifications.

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next Pixel Feature Drop might land on November 4 This could include theme packs to change the look and sounds of your phone It might also let you
create GIFs and animated stickers, and prioritize certain notifications

If you have a Pixel phone, then you dont need to wait for new versions of Android to get new features, as Google routinely releases Pixel-specific Feature Drops. And the next one of these updates could include some major upgrades for the best Pixel phones .

Leaker group Mystic Leaks (via 9to5Google ) has shared screenshots and videos showing the supposedly upcoming features, and these include theme packs, custom animations, and prioritized notifications.

The most exciting of these is perhaps the theme packs, which, with one tap, will apply a wallpaper along with matching icons, GIFs, and sounds.
Initially, it seems a Wicked: For Good theme pack will be launching, consisting of For Good, Glinda, and Elphaba themes, but were hopeful that
more packs will follow.

If they do, then these could be an easy way to significantly change the look of the interface on your Pixel phone. (Image credit: Mystic Leaks / Google) Create GIFs and give people the VIP treatment

Next up, theres the ability to turn an image or Pixel Studio creation into a GIF or animated sticker, and finally, theres an update to the Pixel VIPs feature, which will ensure messages sent from people you designate as VIPs will have their notifications highlighted in yellow, and the person's contact photo visible in the status bar.

The goal here is to make these messages easier to spot, so you dont miss them amongst an influx of notifications though note that this feature only works with messages sent via WhatsApp and Google Messages.

In any case, this sounds like quite a good mix of upgrades, and the Feature Drop could be coming soon, with the leak suggesting a November 4 release.

But until this update actually rolls out, wed take these rumors with a pinch of salt, as while the images look credible, it hasnt been long since the last Pixel Feature Drop. Plus, as 9to5Google notes, were also expecting to see Android 16 QPR2 land before the end of the year, and this will also include a number of new features. So, the supposed timing of this Feature Drop is a little strange.

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