Google Pixel 6 reportedly ghost dialing contacts at random

Google Pixel 6 reportedly ghost dialing contacts at random — not good

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Update: This Google Pixel 6's ghost dialling problem has now been fixed thanks to an update to the Google app. You can read more almost it through the link.

The Google Pixel vi and Pixel 6 Pro have been out for less than three weeks, and early buyers who were able to get their pre-orders in have been running into odd bugs.

Earlier this week nosotros reported almost a screen flickering issue and double punch holes appearing on the display. Then we heard that Android 12 is draining batteries on Pixel devices, though information technology'south not clear how much this affects older Pixels versus the new Pixel vi models. And now information technology seems that random dialing is another event owners are having to deal with.

In a Reddit thread, as spotted by Android Authority, users on the Google Pixel subreddit have been voicing their badgerer with Google'southward latest flagship. Users are finding their devices randomly calling contacts at all parts of the day. It does seem that disabling 'Hey Google' solves the problem. As of publishing, Google has not addressed the result. Tom'south Guide has contacted Google most this problem and will update this commodity upon reply.

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"I wake upwardly at 7am with a call in progress tone. I was and then confused I looked at my phone to see who was calling me and to my surprise my phone called a friend that I never called earlier," said user Emergency_Passage281, the original author of the Reddit thread.

Some other user asked the original poster to look in their Assistant recordings to see if the Google Assistant might have heard something during their sleep. Emergency_Passage281 looked at his/her history and constitute that Google Banana selected a contact and called it without any vocalisation control. And the screen was off throughout this process.

Other users resolved this consequence by disabling Google Assistant. Since doing then, the problem has not cropped up. Only, of course, the easily-gratuitous feature is now inoperable. While inconvenient, it's improve than accidentally calling an ex.

Other users have gone ahead and disabled the Google Assistant lock screen functionality also.

Earlier this week, another user posted a similar problem on Google'south Pixel back up site, but as of publishing, a Google client service representative has non replied to the thread.

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