Google fixes volume issues on the Pixel 5 with the latest update

After two months of user complaints on Google’s support forums and social media, it seems to have finally paid off, as volume control issues on the company’s latest flagship phone, the Pixel 5, appear to be paying off. have been resolved with the January update.

In November, HT Tech reported that Reddit users were complaining that the volume of system-level sounds for screenshots and when capturing images was way too loud, even when the phone volume was turned off. low.

This is a pretty serious bug that makes the dialer almost impossible to use on anything other than the lowest ringtone settings, causing the ringtone to be inaudible, one Reddit user commented at the time. Meanwhile, a community specialist had responded to the device’s support forums, saying the company would work to make improvements in future updates.

The company’s recently released monthly update for the Pixel 5, which also brings the January security fixes, mentions “new tweaks and improvements to the volume level of system sounds” as a device-specific change for Google’s flagship 2020 product. The only known workaround before that was to turn off your phone’s ringer or completely mute it – this is not a practical solution for most users who just want to turn down the volume on their device.

This is not the first device-specific bug to affect the Pixel 5. In October of last year, a software bug caused the battery indicator to freeze and could only be fixed restarting the device and reconnecting it to the charger. This problem was also corrected later in a software update.

A month later, users began to report that there was an abnormal gap between the screen and the bezel of the phone. Google, however, claimed that this was normal and did not affect the protection (IP) rating of the phone.