Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

Earlier this year, Google shipped a Pixel 4A update to immoderate owners that lowered battery life to mitigate overheating risk, and soon, it’s going to bash the aforesaid for the Pixel 6A. 

“A subset of Pixel 6A phones volition necessitate a mandatory bundle update to trim the hazard of imaginable artillery overheating,” Google’s Alex Moriconi says successful a connection to The Verge. “The update volition alteration artillery absorption features that volition trim capableness and charging show aft the artillery reaches 400 complaint cycles. We’ll interaction impacted customers adjacent month, with each the accusation they request to code the issue.”

As reported by Android Authority, astatine slightest 2 users person reported instances of their Pixel 6A phones catching fire, with 1 idiosyncratic connected Reddit saying their Pixel 6A “spontaneously combusted successful the mediate of the night.” Android Authority besides spotted codification strings successful the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 merchandise alerting Pixel 6A users to “a imaginable artillery overheating issue” and pointing toward a enactment leafage astatine g.co/pixel/6abattery that presently isn’t live.

In April, Google also announced an extended repair programme for artillery swelling issues with the Pixel 7A.