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Google confirmed that the Pixel 3a, Pixel 4a, and Pixel 5a are all getting the Feature Drop today. The December Feature Drop also adds Ultra-wideband support to the Pixel 6 Pro (which currently only benefits Nearby Share), car crash detection in Taiwan, Italy, and France, a new option for adjusting the Google Assistant button's activation duration, and support for German, French, and Japanese in the Recorder app. If Now Playing does not activate automatically, you can manually activate it using a new search button on the lock screen, just like on the Pixel 6 series. While the Sound Amplifier app is available for non-Pixel devices on the Play Store, Conversation mode is only available to Pixel phone owners while it is in early access.

Google has also added a new 'Conversation' mode to Sound Amplifier, which uses on-device machine learning to eliminate background noise.

If you don't want to use Snapchat, you can change the gesture to perform a different action with Tasker. Snapchat is also adding a new 'Pixel Face' filter that is only available on Pixel phones. This allows you to quickly open Snapchat's viewfinder by double-tapping the back of your phone. Quick Tap to Snap, which was previously exclusive to the Pixel 6 series, is now available for the Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, and Pixel 5a. Another Feature Drop has arrived in the form of the December 2021 security patch, which brings some Google Pixel 6 functionality as well as entirely new features to all currently-supported Pixel phones. Previously, the most recent feature update arrived in June, and it included Astrophotography videos in the camera app, Locked Folder support in Google Photos (which is now rolling out to non-Pixel phones as well), car crash detection, and other changes.

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