Pixel 6 series gremlins are at it again

You can’t blame Google Pixel 6 Pro users for being a little excited. There have been rumors about Face unlock coming to the Pixel 6 Pro with the next Quarterly Pixel Feature Drop which is expected to take place on June 6th.

And to make things more exciting, nearly a month ago we told you that a Sony image sensor used on the Pixel 6 Pro could allow Google to add a facial recognition system to the phone that could take depth maps although it wouldn’t be able to work in low-light conditions. In those situations without enough light, there is the under-display fingerprint scanner that could be employed.

Some new bugs are making their way across Pixel 6 Pro land including one that fails to turn the screen of the phone off. As aReddit user with the handle sempiternum said, “My Pixel 6 Pro has a display timeout setting set on 30 seconds. The stuff is that after 30 seconds the display doesn’t turn off at all.”

And another Pixel 6 Pro owner (Lunatichippo45) took to his Reddit account to ask if anyone’s Pixel 6 Pro has been acting strange lately. Over the last two weeks, his phone has experienced several problems including:

• Not being able to make or receive phone calls without a reboot.
• Phone will show I am connected to the network (T-Mobile) but I will have no data. A reboot will fix this.
• Just today my Pixel Buds were connected but there was no audio. A reboot fixed this also.
• My Pixel Stand 2nd Gen will not fast charge no matter what settings I try.

One suggestion was made that instead of rebooting, the user should turn on and off airplane mode instead.

Pixel 6 users shouldn’t have to reboot their phone daily

Another Pixel 6 Pro user wrote, “My P6P just suddenly stopped recognizing the sim card…like 7 months after having no issues at all. I’ve tried every solution to get it working again (reboots, cleaning the card and slot, activating esim) and nothing works. I’ve defended this thing to death even with all the minor bugs and strangeness the Pixel line is known for…but the core of the issue is that the phone needs to function as, you know, a damn phone!!!”

A couple of Reddit members said that they too are experiencing these daily problems and one noted that if he reboots his phone once a day, it is usually ok. But as another Pixel 6 series user pointed out, a daily update should not be necessary. One Pixel 6 Pro user stated that all of his Gremlins were fixed with the Android 13 beta. That is the second time we’ve heard about the phone’s performance improving with the installation of the Android 13 beta.