Hello all,
I've had my Pixel 2 XL for a couple of weeks now and I love it. I haven't really noticed any bugs or had any complaints at all about it.
One thing I have noticed though is a "white wash" effect on the wallpaper of the phone. It's very apparent on the bottom of the screen around the navigation area with lighter colored wallpapers (light theme on pixel launcher). You can see these in many of the screenshots in the gallery on this forum (show us your homescreen post), where it's almost like a faint white glow around the bottom of the screen in the navagation area. On black or very dark wallpapers this seems to disappear completely and it's just totally dark.
I've also noticed this effect at the top of the screen as well. You can notice it on lighter wallpapers, and feint glow exists if you have a dark wallpaper and you increase the brightness to maximum.
This only seems to be the case on the home screen though. When you launch an app, you are looking at photos, in the drawer, whatever you might doing the effect isn't there. I'm wondering if this is some kind of design choice by Google or just something that's been there and they haven't bothered to correct. Below is an example:
You can clearly notice the effect on the bottom portion of the screen in this shot.
Comparatively with this dark wallpaper the effect is gone completely.
The glow at the top is much less pronounced and isn't really visible in the screenshots and is only observed at max brightness on dark wallpapers.
It's only a small grip, but anyone else notice this??
edit: Also, it seems to directly tied to the Pixel Launcher itself and not the phone or the screen from what I can tell.
I've had my Pixel 2 XL for a couple of weeks now and I love it. I haven't really noticed any bugs or had any complaints at all about it.
One thing I have noticed though is a "white wash" effect on the wallpaper of the phone. It's very apparent on the bottom of the screen around the navigation area with lighter colored wallpapers (light theme on pixel launcher). You can see these in many of the screenshots in the gallery on this forum (show us your homescreen post), where it's almost like a faint white glow around the bottom of the screen in the navagation area. On black or very dark wallpapers this seems to disappear completely and it's just totally dark.
I've also noticed this effect at the top of the screen as well. You can notice it on lighter wallpapers, and feint glow exists if you have a dark wallpaper and you increase the brightness to maximum.
This only seems to be the case on the home screen though. When you launch an app, you are looking at photos, in the drawer, whatever you might doing the effect isn't there. I'm wondering if this is some kind of design choice by Google or just something that's been there and they haven't bothered to correct. Below is an example:
You can clearly notice the effect on the bottom portion of the screen in this shot.
Comparatively with this dark wallpaper the effect is gone completely.
The glow at the top is much less pronounced and isn't really visible in the screenshots and is only observed at max brightness on dark wallpapers.
It's only a small grip, but anyone else notice this??
edit: Also, it seems to directly tied to the Pixel Launcher itself and not the phone or the screen from what I can tell.