Google Play Services Beta Fixes The Check for Update Button on Pixel Phones
A new beta of Google Play Service is currently available and it is bringing a much desired fix to the “Check for Update” button on Google Pixel devices. The new beta build is version 12.2.09 and multiple sources are reporting that at least on the Pixel 2 lineup, you can actually tap the “Check for Update” option in Settings and it will immediately go download the new February Android Security Update patches.
The Check for Update button has been broken for a while now. A fix was to come with Android Oreo but an update to Google Play Services, the culprit in all of the issues, broke it again late last year. Google then indicated that a fix would be coming in 2018. That fix now appears to be happening.