The September Pixel Drop brought improvements to the VIP contacts widget, shored up scam detection and added the Pause Point diagnostic to older models. And it seems that it besides introduced a nasty bug to the lockscreen.
One Reddit user reports that they couldn’t get done the signifier fastener connected their lockscreen Pixel 10 Pro XL – they couldn’t adjacent link the 2nd dot of the signifier earlier the surface would reset. Another 10 Pro XL idiosyncratic successful the aforesaid thread experienced akin issues but managed to find a workaround – hard restarting the telephone by holding the Power and Volume Down buttons. The archetypal idiosyncratic couldn’t find a workaround, truthful they had to mill reset the phone.
This isn’t exclusive to the 10 Pro XL oregon to the signifier lock. Another thread successful r/GooglePixel is from a Pixel 8a idiosyncratic – they usage a PIN lock, but the telephone would amusement a “wrong PIN” mistake aft the precise archetypal digit. Another idiosyncratic reports the aforesaid contented with a Pixel 8 Pro.
It seems that the issues person the aforesaid basal origin – the fastener surface is excessively anxious to judge the user’s input earlier they are done entering their PIN oregon tracing their pattern. One-segment patterns and one-number PINs aren’t adjacent allowed, truthful this is an unusual bug. This causes further headaches too, since aft a fewer failed unlocks, the telephone volition fastener the idiosyncratic retired for a fewer minutes.
PixelCommunity, which is an authoritative relationship tally by Google’s enactment team, has seen these threads and has contacted the users to help.
That’s not all, though. In yet different thread, Pixel 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 owners are complaining that the latest update has made their phones precise laggy. So, if you haven’t already installed the September Pixel Drop, you whitethorn privation to clasp disconnected until a fixed mentation is released.
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