There is a delay that is affecting users of the Pixel 10 Series. Dating back to last year Pixel 9 line, and continuing with this year’s. Pixel 10 series, the speaker button in the Google Phone app will lag or not respond to touch during phone calls. On the Google Community Support page, a Pixel 10 Pro XL user wrote that there are times when it takes several taps of the button before the sound switches from the Pixel’s internal speaker to the external speaker. This delay can last up to two seconds.
Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 series phones have issues with the speaker button in the Google Phone app
As an example, let’s say you’re talking to someone on the phone using speakerphone and you get to a point in the conversation where you would prefer that everyone around you not hear what the person you’re talking to is saying. So you tap the speaker button to move the call to the internal speaker, but it doesn’t work, or there’s a delay, and everyone around your phone hears the part of the conversation you wanted to be private. The problem appears if the phone is running the stable version. Android version 16 or the newly released one Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3.2 update.
This bug apparently started last May when a The Pixel 9 Pro user noticed that tapping the speaker icon no longer activated the external speaker instantly after pressing the button. Instead, there was a “noticeable delay” after pressing the button. In September, a Pixel 10 Pro The XL user wrote on social media: “If I’m on a call with the phone app in full screen, the button to switch to speaker sometimes works. I have to keep clicking like crazy to turn it on and off; all the other buttons work without a problem. If I click the speaker button in the notification (as opposed to the button in the phone app), it works every time.”
On Issue Tracker, Google says it won’t fix the feature
That last observation is important because it suggests that the latest version of the Google Phones app is responsible. Additionally, some reported that when they went back to a previous version of the app, the speaker button performance returned to normal. While you might think this issue is no big deal, it really is, especially since Google is aware of the issue but has yet to fix it.
The Issue Tracker says that Google will not fix this problem. | Image credit-Piunikaweb
As a Redditor with the username cliffr39 wrote: “I just want the speaker icon to work correctly when I press it at the start of a phone call. The most annoying bug in this
Pixel 10 Pro XL since its release and it still hasn’t been fixed.” It doesn’t seem like Google has any intention of fixing this either. While the issue reached the Issue Tracker in August, a final resolution was posted on October 20.
when Google wrote “Status: Will not be fixed (not feasible).”The Issue Tracker also says: “We are closing this issue as we do not have enough actionable information. If you continue to have the same issue, please file a new issue and add the relevant information along with a reference link to the previous issue.” With this in mind, there seems to be only one way around the problem and that is to use the notification switch instead of the Google Phone app button. Speaking of which, another option would be to avoid the Google Phone app altogether.
Will Google develop a fix for this bug?
For those who depend on the use of the speaker in their Pixel 9 either Pixel 10 series phone, Google’s decision not to fix the problem because it is too difficult to do so will not sit well with users who paid for a flagship phone that has a serious problem with a frequently used feature that Google does not seem to plan to fix at this time. I hope a miracle happens and Google will develop a fix for this issue in the near future.
