Pixel Camera Tweak Keeps Video Boost Enabled

Google has made an update so that Video Boost no longer has to be enabled every time you open the Pixel Camera app.

Since launch, Video Boost on the Pixel 8 Pro, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL would get disabled upon exiting the Camera app. (However, it remained on if you switched to the photo mode and back.) As such, it’s something you actively have to remember to activate. This is not ideal if you’re capturing something over a short but not continuous period.

Over the past day or so, Pixel owners noticed (via Android Authority) that Video Boost remains enabled when you close the app and return to it. You can quickly tell from the video camera icon badged with a sparkle in the top-left corner.

As is, the fact that the boost to 8K, along with improvements to lighting, colors, and details, takes some time to upload (which is not ideal on cellular) and process in the cloud are barriers to adoption. In becoming a sticky setting, Google is removing one obstacle to usage.

We’re seeing this new behavior with version 9.7.047.710329721.21 of Pixel Camera, which rolled out at the end of last month as a small patch. This change might have been made with that release or part of a server-side update in recent days.

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