Google says bug with Teams and Android may cause 911 calls to fail

Last week, a Reddit consumer reported that they weren’t able to call 911 using their Pixel 3 and later stated they have been working with Google assist to determine the problem. Yesterday, Google announced what was causing the issue in a reply to the publish: an “unintended interaction between the Microsoft Teams app and the underlying Android operating system” (via 9to5Google).

In its remark, Google says that the bug occurs when somebody is utilizing Android 10 or later and has Teams put in however isn’t logged into the app. The firm says that Microsoft might be releasing an replace to Teams “soon” to forestall the problem and that there’s an replace to Android coming January 4th.

Needless to say, you need to uninstall Teams till the replace is offered if you happen to’re not planning on logging into the app. If you might have logged into it at one level however don’t use it steadily, you also needs to go forward and double-check that you just’re nonetheless logged in as nicely. Even although the bug was reported on the Pixel subreddit, Google recommends that you need to maintain a watch out for the Teams replace when you’ve got “any Android device” operating Android 10 or up.

As many commenters identified, it’s a bit regarding that any app could make it so you may’t contact emergency companies. Google does say it’s solely obtained one report about this bug, nevertheless it’s a reasonably area of interest set of circumstances that trigger the bug (there’s actually no motive to have Teams put in if you happen to’re not logged into it). If it had been a extra frequent interplay, it might’ve actually prompted issues.

Google says it’ll replace its Reddit remark when the Teams replace is rolled out.