{"id":26192,"date":"2025-07-28T00:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26192\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:23:09","slug":"older-google-pixel-smartphones-recalled-after-burn-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26192\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Google Pixel smartphones recalled after burn injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productsafety.gov.au\/search-consumer-product-recalls\/google-pixel-6a-smartphone\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"recall\">recall<\/a> has been issued for some Google Pixel 6a smartphones over fears the device could overheat and catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>In a recall notice released the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said: &#8220;Incidents have occurred resulting in serious burn injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An overheating battery could pose a risk of fire and\/or burns to a user.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c62cb0fd-6ca8-4bf4-ac9e-3e53692a2165.jpeg\"   alt=\"A recall notice has been issued by the ACCC for some Google Pixel 6a smartphones.\"\/>A recall notice has been issued by the ACCC for some Google Pixel 6a smartphones. (iStock)<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone was released in July 2022 and sold by popular retailers including JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman and Officeworks until April this year.<\/p>\n<p>This issue does not affect all Pixel 6a devices, only those with the model number  G1AZG are impacted.<\/p>\n<p>A firmware update which provides new battery management features that mitigate the risk of overheating was rolled out to Google Pixel 6a smartphones on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of the smartphone have been advised that they do not need to return their devices, but should take steps to check if their phone is affected.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers can visit Google Pixel help page <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/pixelphone\/workflow\/16310202?sjid=13259442287920216602-EU&amp;visit_id=638871240889414824-3985608296&amp;p=pixel6a_battery_help&amp;rd=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to find out if their device is impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The new battery management system will be activated for impacted devices once it receives the firmware update and reaches 400 battery cycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the device is not impacted by the issue, the firmware update will have no impact on battery management and the device will perform the same as before.<\/p>\n<p>Google said some smartphone owners may be eligible to receive the cost of repairs, a cash payment or a Google Store hardware discount credit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/Z8tJCf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recall has been issued for some Google Pixel 6a smartphones over fears the device could overheat and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-26192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}