- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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I have the Pixel 7 Pro currently.
It’d be a nice phone if shit worked, but the fingerprint scanner is literally worse than useless, various apps and functions lock up all the time, gestures don’t always work like they should, the Bluetooth connection with my car is wonky, it frequently gets in “moods” where I don’t get notifications, or texts come in on like a 5-15 minute delay, and sometimes it loses signal and won’t pick it up again until I restart it.
The fingerprint scanner is the big one though. The backside scanner on the Pixel 3 was flawless. This one is so bad that I’d rather just not have one, and have the thing designed around not using one. It’s fantastically, wildly, comically bad.
It should be the same fingerprint reader across the whole lineup, so I dont know what’s happened to yours. Mine works fine, not as fast as some ultrasonic counterparts, but I have no issue with that coming from iPhone Xs.
There’s tons and tons of reports of fingerprint sensor issues with pretty much every pixel model since they went to the in-screen reader.
If you’ve had good luck with yours I guess congrats on the good luck.
Mine pretty much only serves as a negative. Any time face unlock can work, it does. Any time the face unlock doesn’t work, the fingerprint sensor also doesn’t work…but it forces me to try three times before giving me the option to enter my PIN.
So all summer, when I’m wearing sunglasses, every single time I want to check my phone, I have to hit the fingerprint sensor three times then enter my PIN. Google should be embarrassed by how awful it is.
All I can recommend is to delete all the fingerprints and just use the PIN at this point.