Picture this: you leave your Pixel phone on the wireless charging pad overnight but, to your surprise, wake up to a red battery indicator. You reposition it on the charging pad, and it confirms “charging,” but then you come back only to find the battery percentage has gone down instead of up.
This is the mildly frustrating situation that many Pixel owners find themselves in after the big Google update this week.
Charging…or is it?
Pixel users are complaining about wireless charging. | Image by Google
Several Pixel owners have complained on the Google support forums that their phones aren’t charging wirelessly – even after rebooting, running battery diagnostics, and switching chargers. The same wireless chargers apparently worked fine before installing the November security update.
The following Pixels, some of the best Android phones, seem to be affected so far:
The new security update just started rolling out a couple of days ago (November 10), so more cases and affected phones could show up in the wild – two new cases appeared on the forums just today. But this bug does not seem as widespread as the one that breaks Pixel cameras.
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Support “wasn’t very helpful”
One Pixel owner claims that Google’s online support staff didn’t want to blame the security update for this issue.
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The support specialist I contacted wasn't very helpful. They want to blame my case (which I had already removed) or my charger (which still works with other phones).
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Several other Pixel owners have also tried standard troubleshooting steps, but they failed to resolve the issue. Charging with a cable seems to work fine, however, according to this Pixel user on Reddit. I’ve also seen several complaints of affected phones draining the battery faster.
Two Pixel owners on Reddit discussing the wireless charging issue. | Image by Reddit
Since Google hasn’t officially acknowledged the bug, it’s difficult to estimate when it’ll be patched. Before the November 2026 update, some Pixel phones were occasionally displaying the “charging” indicator without connecting to a charger. Google patched this bug with the new update, but the update seems to have caused a similar issue.
Faisal Rasool has been writing about mobile tech for the past ten years. His favorite cousin used to be a mobile technician and, as a kid, Faisal learned how to repair and tweak phones in his workshop. Faisal's first phone was the Samsung Galaxy Europa (released 2010). More Android smartphones followed it, including the Samsung Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S6, Huawei P8, and currently the Galaxy A56.
He's a life-long Android guy because he loves other open-source platforms. He's been covering such platforms for websites like How-To Geek, Android Headlines, Android Police, SlashGear, and now PhoneArena.
Faisal has a bachelor's in English literature and he likes to write stories and paint in his free time.
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