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TL;DR
- Google appears to have neglected a bug in Android 15 that impacts the wallpaper-based theming system.
- It ends in customers getting fewer distinctive wallpaper coloration choices with a number of duplicates.
- The bug was first noticed in a beta launch, nevertheless it has made it to the secure construct.
The Android 15 rollout for Pixel gadgets doesn’t appear to be going as easily as Google might need hoped. Along with the replace lacking among the marketed options, we’ve additionally come throughout a number of experiences of Pixel customers dealing with an annoying bug within the Instagram app. Whereas Google has confirmed that the lacking options will attain customers over the subsequent few weeks and Instagram has already launched an replace to repair the Tales concern, there’s one bug within the newest Android launch that appears to have gone below Google’s radar.
The wallpaper-based theming system in Android 15 has a minor concern. It impacts the “Wallpaper colours” carousel within the Wallpaper & type settings on Pixel gadgets, which presents a choice of coloration mixtures primarily based in your present wallpaper to theme icons, textual content, and different UI parts. As an alternative of providing a choice of distinctive coloration mixtures, the carousel reveals a number of duplicates.
The hooked up screenshots present duplicate coloration mixtures on the reverse ends of the carousel. The choice modifications whenever you change to a distinct wallpaper, however you solely get just a few distinctive choices and a bunch of duplicates. Google was made conscious of this concern when it was first noticed within the fourth beta launch of Android 15 again in July, nevertheless it’s nonetheless current within the secure construct that rolled out to Pixel gadgets earlier this week.
In response to an entry on Google’s Subject Tracker, the Googler assigned to the bug concluded that the function was working as supposed. Nevertheless, the carousel provided extra distinctive coloration mixtures and no duplicates within the earlier Android launch.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be a repair is within the works as the difficulty tracker entry was given a “Gained’t repair (Meant conduct) standing. A separate entry in regards to the similar concern notes that somebody continues to be assigned to the bug, however there haven’t been any updates on it since August.
We’ve contacted Google for a touch upon the matter and to seek out out if that is certainly supposed conduct or a bug. We’ll replace this submit as quickly as we’ve got extra particulars.
