{"id":270139,"date":"2026-06-11T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:45:10","slug":"a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Android 17 beta has landed \u2014 and it brings an exciting Screen Reactions feature for social media creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/android\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators\">A new Android 17 beta has landed \u2014 and it brings an exciting Screen Reactions feature for social media creators<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/android\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/android\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 07:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-01814cb6-7d58-41a3-89c5-972fcec9c740\">\n<li><strong>Android 17 QPR1 beta 4 is now available<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This includes the Screen Reactions feature that Google recently announced<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beyond that, it mostly contains bug fixes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-57f18eda-4ff6-4347-a270-e2241fb707f9\">Android 17 QPR1 beta 4 has started rolling out, and while this isn\u2019t as feature-packed as the previous beta, it does include one major addition, along with numerous bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>The feature in question is Screen Reactions, a new tool that was unveiled at the Android Show, and which allows you to take recordings of both yourself and the screen of your phone at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>It will turn on your selfie camera and record you in a movable and resizable window on top of whatever\u2019s on your display, so it\u2019s a really convenient way to record reaction videos without having to manually combine two pieces of footage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.28%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B.jpg\" alt=\"Android's Screen Reactions feature\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-1075-80.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B-320-80.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/oLAzGmjGoMzjSbKxxNsG4B.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Google)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"beating-the-bugs-3\">Beating the bugs<\/h2>\n<p id=\"elk-ed57c1db-0853-4441-a60d-769dd398a790-0\">But even if reaction videos aren\u2019t your thing, this beta could still be worth grabbing, as it also fixes various bugs, such as one that would cause the mouse pointer to become invisible on external displays, one that causes the settings app to crash, one that causes recording with the 5x camera to exhibit frame jumps and jitter, and one that causes \u201csevere 3D performance drops\u201d, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are fixes for issues in the previous beta, so if you\u2019re not already running an Android 17 beta, you might just be introducing more bugs by downloading this, rather than fixing any \u2014 but you will gain new features too, like the one above.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you do want to grab this beta, you\u2019ll need a Google Pixel 6a or newer \u2014 with the standard Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro not currently being eligible for it, even though they can get previous Android 17 betas.<\/p>\n<p>But unless you have a spare phone to install it on, we\u2019d recommend waiting for the finished release, which is sure to be more stable and is likely to land very soon \u2014 perhaps even this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/android\/a-new-android-17-beta-has-landed-and-it-brings-an-exciting-screen-reactions-feature-for-social-media-creators\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Android 17 beta has landed \u2014 and it brings an exciting Screen Reactions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/5Cwi2eHCNr993MJgrEHM44-2000-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-270139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270141,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270139\/revisions\/270141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}