You might imagine that if you plugged your Google Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro into an external screen via USB-C it would mirror the phone’s display, but in fact until recently nothing would happen at all. Now though, if you have the latest Android beta, screen mirroring over USB-C is possible.
This was spotted by Android Authority, which notes that this feature has always been possible at a hardware level, but that for some reason Google previously blocked it on a software level, perhaps so that Pixel 8 owners would instead make use of Google’s wireless Cast feature to mirror the screen.
