While not many people have used the new Pixel XL smartphones from Google, many are aware of its cool fingerprint scanner gesture feature that lets you swipe and access the notification shade – using the fingerprint scanner. We did talk about the same in last weeks AMA video where Asif showcased it to our live viewers.
This feature was introduced on Android 7.1 on the Pixel (both the devices come preloaded with Android 7.1). However, the same feature did not make it to the Android 7.1 version that we saw on the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P – both of which have the hardware capability to support the feature. Well, we have news coming in about the possibility of both these old workhorses getting the feature in a future firmware update.
