Pixel customers report the Google app is making their telephones overheat

If a Pixel telephone is your day by day driver, it’s possible you’ll wish to preserve a charger close by. An Engadget reader contacted us on Sunday to report that their Pixel 6 Pro has just lately been overheating and excessively draining its battery. They believe the offender is the Google app and an replace that started rolling out on Might twelfth.

“I have never touched my telephone prior to now hour. It is simply been on a typical wi-fi charger,” the reader says of a screenshot (seen beneath) they despatched of their telephone’s settings menu, exhibiting the Google app burning via the 6 Professional’s battery within the background. “Nonetheless extremely popular, and if I did not roll again to a unique model, I would not have a internet enhance on my telephone’s battery.”

Courtesy of Engadget reader

A go to to and the reveals different Pixel customers are experiencing the identical concern. “It simply began yesterday. Huge battery utilization from Google app and to a lesser diploma Android System Intelligence. I simply went via and did a manufacturing unit reset, reinstalled most issues and it is nonetheless taking place,” one Reddit consumer wrote. “Past the battery not lasting the telephone is getting actually heat so I do know it is harming the battery and doubtlessly the CPU.”

Those that have tried contacting Google report the corporate’s assist employees haven’t been very useful. Some customers say rolling again to an older model of the Google app hasn’t fastened the issue for them. “Truly ended up with a fair older model from Might 10, nonetheless draining the battery,” writes one Redditor. The reader who contacted us suspects the issue could also be server-side. “Google app retains wrecking the battery no matter model, and I’ve rolled all the best way again to Might 1st,” they write. “I do not know the right way to see if the app is attempting to name house or on a loop with one thing like that, however the signs stay the identical.”

Google didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s remark request. If the Google app is at fault right here, it wouldn’t be the primary time a software program replace has induced complications for Pixel customers. Final Might, Google needed to after an earlier replace induced the telephones to provide a lot weaker haptic suggestions. The yr earlier than the corporate the rollout of its December Pixel replace after customers discovered it was making their telephones drop calls.

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