Google’s August Pixel update features a repair for Android’s three-button navigation and gesture navigation programs turning 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 user said that navigation has been “an entire mess” and that they bumped into points with buttons being “utterly unresponsive” or delays of “over 30 seconds” on their Pixel 8 Professional. One other user said they needed to sometimes press the again button “a couple of occasions” on their Pixel 9 to get the telephone to register it. The swipe gesture to navigate again additionally sometimes stopped working, as observed by Android Police’s Artem Russakovskii.
Google’s patch notes solely vaguely say that the problems would occur below “sure situations.” Along with basic stability enhancements, the replace additionally fixes a problem the place a scheduled darkish theme wouldn’t work. It additionally features a security fix for a excessive severity distant code execution vulnerability.
The replace is rolling out now for Pixel 6 gadgets and newer.