Google says it’ll repair the ghostly display screen flickering that some users have reported seeing when urgent the Pixel 6 Pro’s energy button whereas the telephone is totally powered down (via Android Central). From most experiences, the sparkles don’t occur when simply the display screen is off, like it could be if the telephone was sleeping, although at least one person says that it’s occurred whereas the telephone was on and in use. Google describes the problem as occurring when the ability button is pushed “with slight pressure but not enough to turn [the Pixel 6 Pro] on.”

In a support document for the issue, Google says the repair is coming in a December software program replace and which you could keep away from it by not urgent the ability button when the telephone’s powered down. While that could possibly be learn as a little bit of a “you’re holding it wrong” instruction, it’s a bit onerous to think about why you’d have to repeatedly press the ability button whereas the telephone’s off.

Google particularly says in its assist doc that the problem doesn’t imply the telephone has a {hardware} flaw. That’s excellent news as a result of earlier Google telephones, just like the Pixel 2 XL, had bizarre display screen points all through their whole lives — that shouldn’t be the case with the 6 Pro if the problem is fixable in software program. While it’s not going that the majority homeowners would’ve run into the “transient display artifacts,” as Google places it, it’s nonetheless good to see that it’s getting fastened and may assist those that use their telephone’s buttons as fidget toys to have a much less annoying expertise.