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TL;DR
- Google appears to have missed a bug in Android 15 that impacts the wallpaper-based theming system.
- It leads to customers getting fewer distinctive wallpaper shade choices with a number of duplicates.
- The bug was first noticed in a beta launch, nevertheless it has made it to the steady construct.
The Android 15 rollout for Pixel units doesn’t appear to be going as easily as Google may need hoped. Along with the replace lacking among the marketed options, we’ve additionally come throughout a number of stories of Pixel customers going through 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 difficulty, 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 difficulty. It impacts the “Wallpaper colours” carousel within the Wallpaper & model settings on Pixel units, which provides a number of shade mixtures primarily based in your present wallpaper to theme icons, textual content, and different UI components. As a substitute of providing a number of distinctive shade mixtures, the carousel reveals a number of duplicates.
The hooked up screenshots present duplicate shade mixtures on the reverse ends of the carousel. The choice modifications if you swap to a distinct wallpaper, however you solely get a number of distinctive choices and a bunch of duplicates. Google was made conscious of this difficulty when it was first noticed within the fourth beta launch of Android 15 again in July, nevertheless it’s nonetheless current within the steady construct that rolled out to Pixel units earlier this week.
In response to an entry on Google’s Challenge Tracker, the Googler assigned to the bug concluded that the function was working as meant. Nonetheless, the carousel supplied extra distinctive shade mixtures and no duplicates within the earlier Android launch.
Sadly, it doesn’t appear to be a repair is within the works as the problem tracker entry was given a “Received’t repair (Supposed conduct) standing. A separate entry regarding the similar difficulty notes that somebody remains 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 search out out if that is certainly meant conduct or a bug. We’ll replace this put up as quickly as we now have extra particulars.
