Pixel 11 adds new Screen Saver features, including a new style that's impossible to ignore

With the launch of the Pixel 10 series last year, Google introduced long-overdue improvements to Android’s screensaver. The new Screen saver functionality was one of the Pixel 10’s standout features, allowing the idle screen to be turned into a bedside clock or a digital photo frame. And it’s gaining new abilities with the Pixel 11 series.

We’ve discovered a new Screen saver style with the Pixel 11 series. Called “Charge,” the screensaver shows a bar stretched alongside one of the screen’s edges, showing the exact battery percentage. While the current battery percentage is displayed in large, easy-to-read text, the screen also shows milestones for 80% and 100% charging in a smaller font. Meanwhile, the time is displayed in a relatively smaller font at the bottom of the screen.

The Screen saver style works in both portrait and landscape orientations, as you can see below. You can also choose to show it every time the Pixel 11 series phone is charging, or restrict it to when you’re charging it wirelessly.

In addition to the new style, the Pixel 11’s Screen saver now lets you choose from a myriad of analog and digital clock options, with different fonts, for existing clock faces. To make choosing easier, Google is combining analog and digital clock faces into a single menu.

The Pixel 11 also lets you cycle through available options by swiping across the screen, just like you can on an iPhone’s StandBy — the feature that inspires Pixel’s Screen saver.

All these changes are already active on the new Pixel 11 series phones, but we don’t see them on older devices, including the Pixel 10 XL. We can’t say whether these new Screen saver styles will be exclusive to the Pixel 11, just like the new Digital Wellbeing feature, and we will inform you once Google shares a clarification. Meanwhile, if you want similar features on any other Android device, you can check out an unofficial app that lets you accomplish all of it, and more.