Google's Confidential Android Security Update Sent to Pixel User by Mistake

A small mistake from Google has made it to send Google-only dogfood build (allowed only for the Google insiders) of their upcoming July 2019 security update to a Pixel owner.

A dogfood build is a prerelease version of a software update that developers use internally on their own equipment in order to test it, so they can easily find bugs or other issues and fix them before the update is released to the public.

According to BleepingComputer that the user received the July 2019 OTA security update that is meant only for Googlers. This user's device is a Pixel 3a XL, they are not affiliated with Google, but did have dev options turned on.

Google's description for the update was as follows: The description for this update reads: Security update available

CONFIDENTIAL INTERNAL ONLY -- This is a confidential Googlers-only OTA to update your devices to Android 9 with July 2019 security patches and critical bugfixes. You may use your device normally but do not discuss or comment on this update externally. Send feedback to android-dogfood-discuss@. see go/release-faqs for more info! Update size: 79.8 MB