The Pixel 6A is getting an immediate update to make sure it’s moddable

Only days after the Pixel 6A’s send off, Google’s carrying out an update to fix an issue keeping clients from opening the bootloader and performing mods, as per a report from Android Police. The change is packaged inside the Pixel 6A’s most memorable update, which Google recently began delivering a week ago.

To put it plainly, a bootloader is a piece of programming that heaps the working framework (OS) on a gadget when it turns on. Accessing the bootloader on Android can give you full command over your OS in a cycle known as establishing. It additionally permits you to introduce modded variants of Android, called ROMs. While a few telephone producers and transporters don’t allow you to open your gadget’s bootloader, Google does things any other way. It lets you make a plunge on Pixels that aren’t attached to a particular transporter (which are, confusingly, otherwise called “opened” gadgets).

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Last week, Android Police found a few reports from Pixel 6A clients who were disheartened to observe that they couldn’t get to the bootloader, and later affirmed the issue on their own Pixel 6A survey unit. A Google representative told Android Police that a fix is remembered for the most recent Pixel 6A update, despite the fact that it doesn’t expressly make reference to it in its fix notes.

Google says the update will keep on carrying out throughout the span of the following week “contingent upon transporter organizations.” So in the event that you’ve been anticipating modding your pristine Pixel 6A, you shouldn’t need to stand by an excess of longer.