Pixel 9 finally gets adaptive refresh rate support in Android 15 QPR1
 

• Google says that the Pixel 9 series now supports adaptive refresh rate in the latest Pixel Drop.
• Adaptive refresh rate support was added in Android 15, and it allows the screen’s refresh rate to adapt to the frame rate of content.
• This feature reportedly reduces both power consumption and jank as it lets devices run at lower refresh rates without needing to switch modes.

Google just announced the December 2024 Pixel Drop, and it brings a raft of features to Pixel phones, Pixel smartwatches, and the Pixel Tablet. We’ve already thoroughly documented all the new features and improvements that Google shared, but there’s one change that we didn’t anticipate. With the new update, Google’s latest Pixel phones are getting support for adaptive refresh rate.

Alongside a blog post, Google shares a handy chart on its support forums that lists the feature availability by device for every Pixel Drop. Today’s Pixel Drop release is no different, of course, and in the feature availability chart that Google shared today, we noticed that Google listed “adaptive refresh rate” as a feature exclusive to the Google Pixel 9 series.




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