Google is pushing out a repair for the massive Android 14 multi-user bug

If you happen to’ve been maintaining with the newest Android 14 bug information, you may know {that a} severe difficulty has been affecting Pixel homeowners with a number of profiles on their units. Now it appears assistance is on the best way, as Google is rolling out a repair.

The repair is a part of the November 2023 replace for Pixel units, and (as noticed by 9to5Google), it mentions a bug that has been “often inflicting units with a number of customers enabled to point out out of area or be in a reboot loop”.

Pixel customers ought to begin seeing the replace seem from at the moment (November 7), although as traditional it will take a number of days to achieve everybody. You may manually test for updates on a Pixel telephone by going to System and System replace in Settings.

At this stage there is no affirmation that individuals affected by this significantly nasty bug have had their points resolved, although we’re taking Google’s phrase for it that the software program replace will probably be efficient. Nevertheless, there is no point out of a repair for the display screen tint drawback that some Pixel 8 homeowners have been reporting.

Knowledge restoration

The be aware connected to the software program replace confirms that the storage and reboot points have been observed on Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Professional, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Professional, Pixel 7a, Pixel Pill, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, and Pixel 8 Professional units – so every thing Google has launched since late October 2021.

Google acknowledged the issue final week, and confirmed that it was associated to having a number of consumer accounts on a tool operating Android 14. At that time it stated it was “investigating” methods of recovering misplaced knowledge – however primarily based on the latest replace, that is trying unlikely for these most significantly affected.

As per an up to date assist put up, these customers who can get into their telephones however cannot entry recordsdata ought to be capable of entry their knowledge once more as soon as the replace is put in. Nevertheless, for these customers whose units are caught in a reboot loop, the brand new software program patch “might not allow knowledge to be recovered”.

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In case your telephone or pill is consistently rebooting, you are able to do a manufacturing unit reset utilizing the buttons on the machine. It will reinstall Android, and allow you to put in the newest replace – however any knowledge (like images and paperwork) you have not already backed up some place else will virtually definitely be misplaced.

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