{"id":48118,"date":"2025-08-06T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48118\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:52:07","slug":"googles-latest-pixel-update-fixes-unresponsive-button-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48118\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s latest Pixel update fixes unresponsive button issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Google is rolling a fix for a bug that made some Pixel users&#8217; three-button navigation unresponsive with its monthly software update this August. As <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/719556\/google-pixel-back-button-navigation-gesture-issues-android-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Verge;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Verge<\/a> notes, after the company released <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/android-16-is-out-complete-with-new-features-for-pixel-phones-including-live-notification-updates-170006935.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Android 16;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16<\/a> in June, Pixel users <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GooglePixel\/comments\/1lb4dyf\/3button_navigation_on_android_16_is_broken\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:have been reporting;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">have been reporting<\/a> that their buttons are being unresponsive or that it&#8217;s taking up to 30 seconds for their device to register a tap. Some said they have to press the back button several times for the three-button menu to start working. Users from across Pixel models, including the latest <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/google-pixel-9-review-the-go-to-android-smartphone-133005548.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pixel 9;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel 9<\/a> line have reported experiencing those issues and other similar problems. Some also said they were experiencing problems with gesture navigation, such as the swipe gesture <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArtemR\/status\/1933934882624778382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:not working at all;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">not working at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">In Google&#8217;s <a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/pixelphone\/thread\/362911257?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announcement;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announcement<\/a>, it said the update includes a &#8220;fix for issues with 3-button navigation and gesture navigation in certain conditions.&#8221; The update also comes with a &#8220;fix for an issue where the scheduled dark theme was not working in certain conditions&#8221; so people have had to manually toggle on dark mode instead. That&#8217;s another problem that&#8217;s been <a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GooglePixel\/comments\/1j73gb7\/dark_mode_scheduling_broken_since_update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:plaguing some users;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">plaguing some users<\/a> since Pixel&#8217;s March update. Pixel&#8217;s August update will be available for all devices running Android 16, from Pixel 6 to the Pixel 8 lineup. Google said the update will roll out in phases over the next week, so some may have to wait a bit before they&#8217;re able to download and install it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is rolling a fix for a bug that made some Pixel users&#8217; three-button navigation unresponsive with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[844,2306,2333,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-48118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-google","tag-mobile","tag-pixel","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}