{"id":279998,"date":"2026-06-23T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-gets-better-audio-quality-in-android-17-how-to-check\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:15:09","slug":"google-pixel-gets-better-audio-quality-in-android-17-how-to-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-gets-better-audio-quality-in-android-17-how-to-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel gets better audio quality in Android 17 \u2013 how to check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-wireless-audio-quality-lhdc-android-17-update\/\">Google Pixel gets better audio quality in Android 17 \u2013 how to check<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-wireless-audio-quality-lhdc-android-17-update\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-wireless-audio-quality-lhdc-android-17-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 16:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While wired audio is certainly trying to make a comeback, wireless earbuds and headphones are more prevalent today than ever before, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s pretty good news that Google Pixel phones now support LHDCv5 in Android 17, a codec that supports better audio quality.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-719112\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wireless codec your phone uses to talk to Bluetooth devices matters, with AAC being the long-running standard. SBC is another fairly standard codec that can be used and has been supported on Google Pixel devices for a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But LHDC is different, being a high-quality codec that supports quality otherwise only available with a wired solution. Quite a few Android brands have already added LHDC to their devices, but it\u2019s not a native part of Android and, as such, hasn\u2019t been found on Google Pixel devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s now changed.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting with Android 17\u2019s stable release, Google Pixel devices now support LHDCv5, a version of the codec that was announced in 2022 and is fairly widely used in high-end wireless audio today. As the company behind LHDC announced earlier this year, LHDCv5 is now a \u201csystem-level supported codec in Android 17,\u201d meaning it will be available not just on Pixel devices, but theoretically any Android device running the latest version will get the same audio quality boost. Users spotted the codec was live in last week\u2019s update, and we\u2019ve been able to confirm in our own testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, you\u2019ll still need compatible hardware. LHDCv5 is supported on most high-end wireless earbuds today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can check if your Pixel is using LHDCv5 through developer options. You\u2019ll first need to go to Settings  About phone and tap \u201cBuild number\u201d until your phone prompts you to turn on developer options. At that point, you can to go Settings  System  Developer options  Bluetooth to check which codec is being used. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re paired to earbuds with LHDCv5, you\u2019ll see the codec as an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-wireless-audio-quality-lhdc-android-17-update\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Pixel gets better audio quality in Android 17 \u2013 how to check https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/23\/google-pixel-wireless-audio-quality-lhdc-android-17-update\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Pixel-10-blue-in-hand-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-279998","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\/279998"}],"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=279998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280000,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279998\/revisions\/280000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}