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TL;DR

• Several Pixel owners have reported unresponsive touch screens in certain scenarios.
• The issue mostly occurs while gaming or using certain apps in full screen.
• Google hasn’t acknowledged this as a bug or shared a fix yet.

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It’s been almost two months since Google first rolled out Android 17 to all supported Pixel phones. While the newest version brings productivity upgrades, such as App Bubbles, and a healthy amount of under-the-hood upgrades, Google can’t seem to avoid bugs that come with the new update. Just days after its release, Pixel owners reported being unable to use their phones’ touchscreens properly. The touch bug now appears to have returned, but in a different outfit.

Scores of Pixel users are now complaining of touch-related issues since upgrading to Android 17. Seemingly unrelated to the previously reported bug that led to temporarily unresponsive Pixel touchscreens, the new issue only seems to affect users inside games or certain other apps. According to a few reports on Reddit and Google Community forums, the issue appears especially when an app occupies the screen entirely, such as when playing a video on YouTube. Given the vastness and diversity of the different Pixels it impacts, we can’t rule it out as a hardware issue.