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Google just can’t seem to cure its Pixel phones of one particular bug, the ringtone one. That ringtone bug plagued the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, as well as their predecessors, and now it found its way to the Pixel Fold.
The Pixel Fold is the latest Google phone affected by the ringtone bug
Let’s go down the memory lane, shall we? Back in April last year, a ringtone bug popped up on the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 4a, and even the Pixel 5 and 6 had such problems. Reddit was filled with reports regarding the Pixel 7 series, and I personally noticed the same bug on the Pixel 6.
What exactly does it do? Well, the phone basically changes the ringtone sound on its own. That happens at random, it simply starts ringing differently at some point. Installing Zedge and similar apps to apply a different ringtone doesn’t solve the issue, and neither does doing it manually. Things get jumbled up either way.
Factory resetting a phone did the trick for some people, but there’s a huge BUT in that scenario. You must set up your device as a new device, and not pull a backup from the previous phone. That’s also not a guarantee you’ll fix things.
A colleague of mine has the same problem on his Pixel Fold
That’s a nice segue into the Pixel Fold story. A colleague of mine, who had the bug on the Pixel 7 Pro, bought the Pixel Fold. The bug appeared on that phone too. He then replaced it with a new one, but the same thing happened when he set up that one. He did pull a backup from the old device, so that may have triggered it..
That being said, I’m not exactly seeing reports that people are experiencing this on the Pixel Fold, which is why I’m writing this article. The bug is still there, but it may not be present if you don’t pull a backup from your previous Pixel.
Either way, this bug has been around for four generations of phones at this point, and it’s getting quite annoying at this point. Google should find a way to completely eradicate it.