Google’s August Pixel replace features a repair for Android’s three-button navigation and gesture navigation techniques changing into unresponsive.
The problems seem to have began popping up shortly after the official launch of Android 16 in June. Ever since that replace, the person mentioned that navigation has been “a whole mess” and that they bumped into points with buttons being “fully unresponsive” or delays of “over 30 seconds” on their Pixel 8 Professional. One other person mentioned they needed to sometimes press the again button “a number of occasions” on their Pixel 9 to get the cellphone to register it. The swipe gesture to navigate again additionally sometimes stopped working, as seen by Android Police’s Artem Russakovskii.
Google’s patch notes solely vaguely say that the problems would occur beneath “sure situations.” Along with normal stability enhancements, the replace additionally fixes a problem the place a scheduled darkish theme wouldn’t work. It additionally features a safety repair for a excessive severity distant code execution vulnerability.
The replace is rolling out now for Pixel 6 gadgets and newer.
