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Find the manufacture date and production week of your Google Pixel phone or tablet.
Select Google Pixel in the Electronics tab and enter your serial number for an instant manufacture date result.
⚡ Open Google Pixel DecoderGoogle Pixel equipment typically displays the model and serial data tag on a manufacturer rating plate. Look for a label that lists "Model" and "Serial" and check common locations by product type: inside doors, behind access panels, on the back panel, or near the compressor / condenser area.
Google Pixel serial numbers encode the manufacture date in the first three characters. The first character represents the last digit of the manufacture year, and characters 2 and 3 represent the production week as a two-digit number (01 to 53).
For example, a serial beginning with 408 decodes to year digit 4 (2024) and week 08 (approximately late February 2024). Because only the final digit of the year is stored, a year code of 6 could theoretically represent 2016 or 2026. In practice, the Pixel model number — Pixel 6, 7, 8, 9, etc. — provides the clearest confirmation of the manufacture era.
Google launched the original Pixel in 2016, so year digits 6 through 9 correspond to 2016–2019, and digits 0 through 5 correspond to 2020–2025. This mapping is reliable for all Pixel phones and Pixel Tablet devices.
Decade ambiguity for recent digits. The digit 6 could represent 2016 (an original Pixel) or 2026 (a future device). If your phone is a Pixel 6 series, it was released in 2021 and manufactured in 2021–2022, not 2016. Use the Pixel model number to resolve any ambiguity.
Week number out of range. If the two-digit week code is greater than 53 or is 00, the serial may not follow the standard Pixel format. Some refurbished or carrier-specific units use modified serial strings.
Pixel Tablet vs. Pixel Phone. Google Pixel Tablet (released 2023) uses the same serial format as Pixel phones. The year and week decode method is identical across all Pixel-branded devices.