{"id":717963,"date":"2026-06-21T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:30:19","slug":"pixel-owners-report-bizarre-touchscreen-bugs-following-android-17-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717963\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel owners report bizarre touchscreen bugs following Android 17 update"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a Pixel user<\/a> that’s looking to upgrade to Android 17<\/a>, you might want to hold it off.<\/p>\n

It’s not entirely uncommon for bugs to sneak into new software builds, but Android 17 is proving to be especially rocky. <\/p>\n


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\n\t\t\tAndroid 17 is headed to Pixel phones now, and it’ll change the way you multitask
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The biggest OS release of the year has started<\/p>\n

We’ve already reported on Android 17’s Wi-Fi connectivity bug<\/a> and the home screen widget bug<\/a>. Now, an even more disruptive bug has started making the rounds. <\/p>\n

No Wi-Fi is annoying, but it can be countered with mobile data. Home screen widgets vanished? Your phone still functions fine. The latest issue, however, breaks the very foundation of the smartphone experience: the touchscreen. <\/p>\n

The issue was reported by<\/a> users on Reddit<\/a>, via Android Authority<\/a>, suggesting that “strange touch screen issues” started only after updating to Android 17. This includes the device registering more touches than intended, registering fewer touches than intended, and registering top-to-bottom swipes as bottom-to-top swipes (and vice versa). <\/p>\n

It also includes the device not registering touches outright. The bug appears to be affecting the entire Pixel smartphone lineup.<\/p>\n

The bug has made its way to Google’s IssueTracker, and Google reportedly knows about it too. The company replied to a post about the bug with troubleshooting steps.<\/p>\n

According to the company, heading to Settings > Apps > See all apps > Pixel Launcher app > Storage & cache > and clearing cache should solve the issue. Users, however, report otherwise. <\/p>\n

At least one user said that disabling ‘Smooth Display’ fixed the issue for them, and it remained fixed even after re-enabling the feature. The fix has gotten mixed reception, but it’s worth trying if you’re facing touch issues as well. <\/p>\n

Considering the severity of the bugs already found, if you haven’t already updated to Android 17 yet, you might just want to hold off on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re a Pixel user that’s looking to upgrade to Android 17, you might want to hold it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-717963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}