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bmwmike

6,918 posts

107 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Has anyone noticed keyboard oddness since the latest update? For chrome my keyboard seems to be floating as it has a border around it, but it's not floating because I can't move it. In WhatsApp I can't see what I'm typing because the keyboard appears full width and higher than it does in chrome, obscuring what I'm typing. Also the fonts in chrome seem to be smaller. Anyone else had this? Everything up to date etc

P6P

e-honda

8,828 posts

145 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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On mine with keyboard there is a 3 dot menu icon from there you can toggle floating on and off, I have no idea how you move it when floating

eccles

13,720 posts

221 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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e-honda said:
On mine with keyboard there is a 3 dot menu icon from there you can toggle floating on and off, I have no idea how you move it when floating
On my P7PRO the keyboards are fine.

I never knew about the the floating keyboard thing. If you make it 'float' there is a grey bar below the space bar, touch that and you can drag the keyboard around. It's the same on WhatsApp as well.

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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bmwmike said:
Has anyone noticed keyboard oddness since the latest update? For chrome my keyboard seems to be floating as it has a border around it, but it's not floating because I can't move it. In WhatsApp I can't see what I'm typing because the keyboard appears full width and higher than it does in chrome, obscuring what I'm typing. Also the fonts in chrome seem to be smaller. Anyone else had this? Everything up to date etc

P6P
P6 Pro here too, nope my keyboard hasn't changed at all.

Luke.

10,944 posts

249 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Have you tried Swiftkey? It's great.

bmwmike

6,918 posts

107 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Fixed it... Thanks all. Gboard in chrome somehow had a floating (but not really) profile set, and setting it to non floating fixed the WhatsApp issue. I didn't realise the gboard profiles were specific to each app, or that you can set preferences for each app.

ro250

2,734 posts

56 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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It says we now have "Night Sight" although didn't we always have this, maybe under a slightly different name?

eccles

13,720 posts

221 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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ro250 said:
It says we now have "Night Sight" although didn't we always have this, maybe under a slightly different name?
Apparently its a faster night sight, so you don't have to hold the camera still for so long.

ro250

2,734 posts

56 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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eccles said:
ro250 said:
It says we now have "Night Sight" although didn't we always have this, maybe under a slightly different name?
Apparently its a faster night sight, so you don't have to hold the camera still for so long.
Cheers - will give it a go

Zumbruk

7,848 posts

259 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Well, my Assistant brokenness is now fixed, although the 'Select Voice' UI has now changed and it's *HORRIBLE*.

NAS

2,543 posts

230 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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Finally ordered a 6A to replace my Pixel 2. The phone is still working well but the lack of Android & (mainly) security updates are pushing me to do this after 5 years.

Am quite curious as to how it will perform.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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I jumped Pixel 2XL to 7 Pro, so very similar jump in generations to yourself.

I've tried to run good phones for as long as is feasible, but now looking at trade in deals I'm wondering if it's best to trade up every second year or so and whether it might represent similar value to running the 2XL for 5 years.

untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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Neither myself (6 pro) or my partner (6 a) received an emergency alert this afternoon though she did get one with her Samsung work phone, just wondered if anyone here didn't receive the alert?
We are both on the 3 network so it could be that rather than both having Pixel phones.

Luke.

10,944 posts

249 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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untakenname said:
Neither myself (6 pro) or my partner (6 a) received an emergency alert this afternoon though she did get one with her Samsung work phone, just wondered if anyone here didn't receive the alert?
We are both on the 3 network so it could be that rather than both having Pixel phones.
I didn't. On 3 too. They've said they've had issues.

Percy.

741 posts

73 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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Both myself and my partner received the alert, 7Pro and 4.

stevoknevo

1,672 posts

189 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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untakenname said:
Neither myself (6 pro) or my partner (6 a) received an emergency alert this afternoon though she did get one with her Samsung work phone, just wondered if anyone here didn't receive the alert?
We are both on the 3 network so it could be that rather than both having Pixel phones.
Three have said they're looking into why customers didn't receive the alert, so you're not alone.
(I turned it off, and I'm on EE also, if we're going to get nuked I'd rather not know given Faslane is in my council area...) )

E90_M3Ross

34,944 posts

211 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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I turned alerts off last night.

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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I turned mine off too, I'm not bothered about getting any alerts.

It also sounds like they didn't think through the 'process' most people would go through; phone starts making horrible noise so you pick it up and press 'OK' to stop the obnoxious noise - at which point the message about the alert also goes away before you've had a chance to read it.

Most people aren't going to stand there with the noise going off while they read about why it's going off in the first place.

Edited by Funk on Sunday 23 April 21:17

the-norseman

12,263 posts

170 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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It was a Three issue, I got mine (Pixel 6 on BT), partner dinn't (Pixel 7 on Three) and my work phone didn't (iPhone XR on O2).

e-honda

8,828 posts

145 months

Sunday 23rd April 2023
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Funk said:
I turned mine off too, I'm not bothered about getting any alerts.

It also sounds like they didn't think through the 'process' most people would go through; phone starts making horrible noise so you pick it up and press 'OK' to stop the obnoxious noise - at which point the message about the alert also goes away before you've had a chance to read it.

Most people aren't going to stand there with the noise going off while they read about why it's going off in the first place.

Edited by Funk on Sunday 23 April 21:17
I spotted the same problem.
When the nukes hit instead of duck and covering I will be searching through my phones menu trying to find how you view the emergency alert history