Over the previous couple of days, a rising variety of Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 customers (together with homeowners of the Professional fashions) have reported that their telephones are overheating and affected by drastically decreased battery life.

That feels like fairly the issue, particularly as battery life isn’t wonderful on these telephones to start with. However Google has been fast to reply, as posting on the corporate’s help website (opens in new tab), a neighborhood supervisor has mentioned the next:

“We now have acquired studies of Android units turning into overheated and seeing accelerated battery drain. We recognized the foundation explanation for the difficulty being a current Google app backend change that unintentionally resulted in these points. We now have rolled out a repair that ought to start to take impact for impacted customers instantly. No consumer motion is required.”

So, inside just a few days, Google has each acknowledged and seemingly fastened the difficulty, which is impressively quick, not less than. It sounds from the assertion just like the repair ought to robotically be utilized to the Google app, which has been recognized because the offender, so if you happen to’re nonetheless having points, you in all probability received’t do for for much longer.

The newest in an extended line of Pixel issues

Sadly, this isn’t the primary subject that Pixel cellphone customers have reported. In reality, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Professional had been so plagued with bugs that we devoted a complete information to fixing or working round them.

These preliminary bugs now have official fixes (for probably the most half), and the Google Pixel 7 sequence hasn’t been fairly as issue-ridden, however these telephones nonetheless appear to have greater than their fair proportion of issues, with Android Authority (opens in new tab) collating a listing of over a dozen Pixel 7 bugs.

No cellphone lands bug-free, however Google’s current handsets appear to have extra of them than the vast majority of the most effective telephones. So it’s a great factor the corporate additionally appears fast to reply to the extra severe ones, not less than within the case of the difficulty above.