Some new Android 17 customers report weird Wi-Fi issues in apps

Android 17 has arrived, with Google’s newest main platform launch hitting steady simply yesterday. House owners of Pixel telephones have already began upgrading, attempting out all the brand new options like Bubbles and extra. And whereas this ought to be a enjoyable time for Android followers, quite a lot of are having a tough go of issues, as they encounter some very unusual issues with Wi-Fi connectivity throughout a number of apps.

We’re seeing experiences throughout Reddit from customers of units starting from the Pixel 7 to Pixel 10 sequence describing related issues: After updating to Android 17, their telephones seem to nonetheless connect with their Wi-Fi networks, however sure apps now not appear ready to make use of it, as an alternative solely functioning when there’s cell information current.

Impacted customers notice that Google apps look like affected by this glitch probably the most, though some nonetheless appear in a position to operate over Wi-Fi. Whereas we’ve seen a couple of theories about what could possibly be behind this downside — and methods to repair it — one of the crucial promising entails settings for IPv6.

If your own home router presents an choice to toggle IPv6 assist on and off, there’s an opportunity you’re seeing this concern as a result of it’s at the moment disabled, and restoring regular app Wi-Fi connectivity could possibly be so simple as switching it on.

That stated, now we have tried recreating this downside for ourselves by turning IPv6 and cell information off, and we weren’t in a position to expertise the identical downside. That doesn’t essentially imply that IPv6 assist isn’t a root part of the problem, however that the circumstances that result in it could possibly be a bit extra sophisticated than we all know.

Contemplating that Android 17 has been testing in Beta releases for the previous 4 months, to say nothing of all of the testing occurring with the Android Canary monitor, it’s a little bit irritating {that a} bug this debilitating, and seeming to have an effect on so many apps, nonetheless managed to sneak by way of the cracks. Hopefully Google’s in a position to resolve this one quickly — whether or not it’s an IPv6 dependency or one thing else totally — and make things better in order that Android 17 customers aren’t compelled to burn by way of cell information simply to make use of their favourite apps.