- Pixel 10 devices crash and freeze randomly
- Reports suggest the issue has now been fixed
- Google appears to have treated the issue as a major incident.
If you’ve picked up one of the Google Pixel 10 phones since their launch at the end of August, you may have experienced a number of pretty random and frustrating app crashes, but it looks like Google has now managed to fix the problem.
According to Android Police and its founder Artem Russakovskii, a “high priority” incident was declared internally at Google as engineers rushed to address what was becoming a fairly major issue for a considerable number of users.
According to Russakovskii’s sources, Google now believes the issue is resolved thanks to a server-side fix, meaning no Pixel 10 software updates are necessary. However, we may not get a public acknowledgment or explanation.
If you’ve been experiencing these errors over the past few days, they should now be fixed, with no action required on your part (although a reboot is always helpful). However, it is not a great advertisement for the The best Pixel phones.
What went wrong?
Suddenly my Pixel 10 Pro XL was affected by an unknown issue which I suspect is due to Google Play services where many apps freeze and won’t load. It’s really bad. I rebooted several times and the problem returns within minutes. Anyone else? pic.twitter.com/9vA2jfQC29October 12, 2025
We still don’t know much about what went wrong here, but we do know what the effects were: several apps crashed as soon as they were launched and displayed an alert dialog, or froze at seemingly random times.
It’s unclear how many Pixel 10 devices were affected, but a Reddit thread about the issue shows that it was quite widespread and affected numerous different models. In some cases, it appeared to be related to an October software update for the Pixels.
One solution that improved things for some users was to uninstall the Google Play Services part of Android, but this comes with its own problems, and the fix was apparently only successful for a short period of time.
Google at least appears to have prioritized the issue and fixed it quickly, declaring it internally as an incident, meaning an interruption or reduction in service quality, although it is preferable that these issues not occur at all.
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