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Long time Pixel user here (and an Android dev for that matter) and I had no idea the camera had qr support!

just go into the camera settings and turn on lens suggestions

If you are fine with sending the camera stream to Google for analysis...

If not you wouldn't use a Pixel.

Hardly a fact. As a privacy minded person I hold the Nexus/Pixel devices quite high in regard in the android ecosystem.

Better to be screwed by google, than to be screwed by both google and samsung/whatever.

Well actually I just tried this with the normal camera and it worked fine without activating lens (or having given it any permissions).

Same here with my Samsung Galaxy S8+. There's a QR code scanner in the camera app.

Same here with a semi-recent Motorola One Zoom

same here with One plus