Over the weekend, Pixel 10 owners noticed random app crashes on their device. The problem worsened over time, forcing users to uninstall the latest Google Play services update as the only reliable workaround to get their apps working again. Now, almost 24 hours later, Google appears to have fixed the issue with a server-side change.
Android Police founder Artem Russakovskii, one of the first to highlight the issue, shared detailed logs with Google to help them get to the bottom of the problem.
Given the scale of the problem, the company classified the bug internally as an “incident.” As Artem explains, an incident at Google is “an unplanned interruption or reduction in quality of an IT service.” Essentially, the bug was marked as high priority, and multiple teams were working on tackling the problem.
Google engineers eventually resolved the issue a few hours later with a server-side fix. The company will also conduct an internal review to understand what went wrong, especially since it affected a large number of Pixel users and significantly deteriorated their experience. And it should — problems like these shouldn’t slip past Google’s quality control and testing in this day and age.
The random app crashes turned Pixel phones into paperweights, as users couldn’t open or use any apps. The bug only seemed to have affected Pixel 10 and was, thankfully, not widespread enough to cause complete chaos. Other non-Pixel devices were also unaffected by the bug.
If you are still experiencing random app crashes on your Pixel, restart your phone and see if it resolves the problem. Also, ensure you are running the latest Google Play services build.
Bugs are just part of the Pixel experience
This is not the first time Android or Pixel users have run into such frustrating bugs. Such reports also popped up in 2023 and in 2021. And true to form, Google seems to break something with nearly every major Pixel update. Even now, the story’s no different. Despite Google rolling out a fix for the Pixel 10’s fuzzy display, some users report that the issue persists.
Likewise, one frustrated Redditor dug into the Pixel 10’s shaky video problem and discovered that a bug in Google’s Camera API was to blame.
