Google just made Android even prettier in its latest Canary release

Hot off the heals of The Android Show: I/O 2026 Edition, Google has seeded an all-new preview build of Android to users of the operating system’s Canary branch. Known technically as Android Canary 2605, this latest update doubles down on the translucent blur effects that first shipped on the Pixel in Android 16 Quarterly Platform Release 1 (QPR1) in the fall of last year.