Your Pixel simply misplaced a useful Recents trick within the March replace

Google rolled out the secure Android 16 QPR3 replace — generally known as the March 2026 Pixel replace — to Pixel telephones earlier this month. For those who’re utilizing a Pixel gadget, there’s likelihood you’ve already put in the replace. You’ve additionally most likely observed (like these people on Reddit) a small however irritating change within the Latest apps display screen. We really noticed and reported the change again in January, when it first appeared in testing, however we will now affirm that Google has rolled it out extensively within the newest secure launch.

You may not save photos simply from the Recents display screen

For those who’ve ever long-pressed a picture or used the Choose software within the Latest apps display screen, you would possibly already learn about one in every of Android’s lesser-known productiveness methods. These strategies permit you to seize textual content and pictures straight from app previews. It’s a neat shortcut that may prevent from digging by means of apps or screenshots.

Till lately, deciding on a picture gave you helpful choices to put it aside, share it, or open it with Google Lens. Right here’s the way it labored:

After the March replace, that listing has been severely reduce down. You’ll now solely see Copy, Share, and Edit choices when deciding on photos. The choice to avoid wasting the picture to Images is not obtainable.

For those who nonetheless need to save the picture, there’s a workaround, but it surely’s undoubtedly clunkier.

Yow will discover and choose the “Add to Images” choice from the share sheet. It’s buried in there, so that you’ll should peel your eyes and search for it. Whereas this does save the picture to Google Images, it takes longer than simply tapping the Save button that existed earlier than. You can even share the chosen picture with Recordsdata by Google. The picture will save to Images, but it surely results in the Downloads folder.

For a Lens search alternative, you possibly can strive Circle to Search or the “Google Search Picture” choice from the share sheet, which primarily brings up a Lens search. Once more, this was a lot extra handy with the Lens button proper up there within the older UI.

Lots of people could not have realized the characteristic existed, however when you begin utilizing it, it turns into a surprisingly useful strategy to seize photos or textual content from apps with out taking screenshots.

So in case you up to date your Pixel in the previous couple of weeks and thought one thing felt completely different within the Recents display screen, you’re not imagining issues.