The Pixel line is getting its first bug fixes of the new year
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Happy New Year to Google Pixel owners: Google started pushing out the first update of the year for its flagship device line on Jan. 12.
The update is a pretty standard security patch that Pixel owners receive monthly. The update is also limited to the Pixel 7a and up, so anyone with a Pixel 7 Pro is out of luck. As noted earlier, some of the fixes in the update apply only to the Pixel 10 series.
According to Google, here is what the update fixes:
- Noisy ringback tones during Webex calls in certain conditions (7a and up).
- Battery draining in certain conditions (Pixel 8 and up).
- An always-on display flickering issue (Pixel 10 series).
- Noisy lines flashing on screen when editing HDR photos in the Adobe Lightroom app (Pixel 10 series).
- General GPU performance improvements (Pixel 10 series).
- The touchscreen randomly stops working (Pixel 10 series).
- Deleting a Live Universe wallpaper could cause the Wallpaper and style app to become unusable until the phone is rebooted (Pixel 7a and up).
Overall, this isn’t a major surprise that Google is fixing many issues with the Pixel 10 series. Within the past few months, the Pixel 10 Fold experienced a strange battery issue that displayed a question mark for the percentage, and the regular Pixel 10 suffered a weird screen glitch that turned it into all static.
Google also notes that the update is rolling out in phases, so you may not receive it quite yet.
Source: Google via Android Authority
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