{"id":906048,"date":"2026-09-26T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906048\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:42:18","slug":"multiple-users-report-lockscreen-issues-after-installing-the-september-pixel-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906048\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple users report lockscreen issues after installing the September Pixel Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The September Pixel Drop<\/a> brought improvements to the VIP contacts widget, shored up scam detection and added the Pause Point feature to older models. And it seems that it also introduced a nasty bug to the lockscreen.<\/p>\n

One Reddit user<\/a> reports that they couldn\u2019t get through the pattern lock on their lockscreen Pixel 10 Pro XL<\/a> \u2013 they couldn\u2019t even connect the second dot of the pattern before the screen would reset. Another 10 Pro XL user in the same thread experienced similar issues but managed to find a workaround \u2013 hard restarting the phone by holding the Power and Volume Down buttons. The first user couldn\u2019t find a workaround, so they had to factory reset the phone.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t exclusive to the 10 Pro XL or to the pattern lock. Another thread<\/a> in r\/GooglePixel is from a Pixel 8a<\/a> user \u2013 they use a PIN lock, but the phone would show a \u201cwrong PIN\u201d error after the very first digit. Another user reports the same issue with a Pixel 8 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Multiple<\/p>\n

It seems that the issues have the same root cause \u2013 the lock screen is too eager to accept the user\u2019s input before they are done entering their PIN or tracing their pattern. One-segment patterns and one-number PINs aren\u2019t even allowed, so this is an odd bug. This causes additional headaches too, since after a few failed unlocks, the phone will lock the user out for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

PixelCommunity, which is an official account run by Google\u2019s support team, has seen these threads and has contacted the users to help.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not all, though. In yet another thread<\/a>, Pixel 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 owners are complaining that the latest update has made their phones very laggy. So, if you haven\u2019t already installed the September Pixel Drop, you may want to hold off until a fixed version is released.<\/p>\n

Via<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Pixel 11 Pro<\/p>\n

Google Pixel 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The September Pixel Drop brought improvements to the VIP contacts widget, shored up scam detection and added the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-906048","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\/906048","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=906048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}