If your Pixel has been sitting on a wireless charger and still isn’t getting any juice, you may not be imagining it. A handful of owners say wireless charging stopped working after Google’s November update.
What Pixel owners are seeing
According to an Android Authority report, they traced back to a Google support thread. In it, a Pixel 10 Pro XL owner says the phone lost wireless charging after the update. The phone shows that it’s charging, but the battery level doesn’t go up. It slowly drains instead.
Other owners are describing the same thing. So far, reports lists the Pixel 11 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 among the affected phones. New cases were still turning up on user forums. The owners say their chargers worked fine before the update. Rebooting, running battery diagnostics and switching chargers hasn’t helped, though charging with a cable appears to work normally.
So far, there’s no hard evidence tying the problem to the update beyond the timing and what owners report. Google hasn’t confirmed that the update is to blame. It’s also unclear how many people are affected, and the reports look limited for now.
The timing is a little ironic. Google’s changelog for the November update lists a battery and charging fix. PhoneArena notes that some Pixels were showing a charging indicator with no charger connected before the update. Google patched that, but the update seems to have caused a similar problem.
Wireless charging has been a bigger selling point for Pixels lately. Google brought Qi2.2 wireless charging at up to 25W to the whole Pixel 11 series. It had limited that speed to the Pixel 10 Pro XL last year. A bug that stops a phone from charging on a pad hits one of the features Google has been pushing.
What you can do for now
Until Google sorts it out, a cable is the safe fallback. Owners who tried a reboot say it didn’t help, so there’s little point spending hours on tweaks. If you usually leave your Pixel on a pad overnight, check after a short stretch that the battery percentage is climbing. Google hasn’t said whether a fix is on the way.
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