{"id":278517,"date":"2026-06-22T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:00:13","slug":"android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 is causing touchscreen issues for some Pixel owners \u2014 but there\u2019s a potential workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-pixel-phones\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround\">Android 17 is causing touchscreen issues for some Pixel owners \u2014 but there\u2019s a potential workaround<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-pixel-phones\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-pixel-phones\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 06:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-ceb55b74-4806-4e7f-9e60-37193b7a7e43\">\n<li><strong>Android 17 is causing touchscreen issues for a number of Pixel owners<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Google is aware of the issue and has suggested some solutions, but these seemingly haven&#8217;t worked for most people<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Another fix suggested on Reddit appears to work better, but still not for everyone<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-7464ba9d-1b39-42cc-a030-5b5ec39b0d1e\">Android 17 hasn\u2019t had the smoothest of starts, with some early updaters reporting issues with Wi-Fi and 5G connections, and now yet another bug has emerged \u2014 this time affecting the touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p>According to various Reddit users (via Android Authority), the update to Android 17 has led to touchscreen issues, including the screen scrolling in the opposite direction to the one they swiped, completely ignoring taps, and there being dead zones where the screen is unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-7464ba9d-1b39-42cc-a030-5b5ec39b0d1e-2\">It\u2019s hard to say how widespread this issue is, but there are multiple Reddit threads about it, and it has also been submitted to Google\u2019s issue tracker. So if you haven\u2019t updated to Android 17 yet, you might want to hold off \u2014 though it seems the Google Pixel 6 series at least might be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Google is aware of the bug, as not only has it been submitted to the company\u2019s issue tracker, but an official Google account actually replied to one of the Reddit threads, suggesting a couple of possible fixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.22%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM.jpg\" alt=\"Android 17\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-1069-80.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM-320-80.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iAecffq269cDYy9CH6yyoM.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-text\">Various Android 17 features <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Google)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"three-possible-fixes-3\">Three possible fixes<\/h2>\n<p id=\"elk-ee87096a-4ebc-4493-b696-08fa3ee44559\">These included clearing the cache, by going to <strong>Settings  Apps  See all apps  Pixel Launcher app  Storage &#038; cache  Clear cache<\/strong>. If that doesn\u2019t work the other suggestion was to boot your phone into safe mode and see if that fixes the problem.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>To do this on a Pixel 6 or newer that\u2019s currently switched on, <strong>press and hold the power button<\/strong> for a few seconds, and then <strong>tap and hold either the \u2018Power off\u2019 or \u2018Restart\u2019 option<\/strong>, followed by tapping \u2018OK\u2019. If your phone is off, you instead want to press the power button, and then when the animation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-pixel-phones\/android-17-is-causing-touchscreen-issues-for-some-pixel-owners-but-theres-a-potential-workaround\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 is causing touchscreen issues for some Pixel owners \u2014 but there\u2019s a potential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/ZMrT9HEREeFBV5QQswqxZE-2560-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-278517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278519,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278517\/revisions\/278519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}