It's still a running theme that their in-display fingerprint readers are uniquely terrible for many people, even 3 (now 4) generations after they started using them instead of rear-mounted capacitive sensors. I don't know why they struggle so much with that compared to every other manufacturer using exactly the same sensors from the same handful of suppliers.

I held on to my Pixel 5a for as long as I could, primarily for that rear-mounted fingerprint reader. Such a wonderful implementation. Fast, accurate, and fingers just fell naturally into place when picking it up. I'm still dreaming that someday they'll return to that.

I had some issues with this very early when I got mine, but I think this went away completely. I feel like this was a software issue, and is now fixed (well, at least part of it).

I don't think these anecdotes (yours or the guy above with the green screen issue) are useful.

Fwiw, I haven't had either issue with my P8 Pro and it's definitely the best phone I've ever used, both on Android 14 and running the Android 15 betas.

These anecdotes are useful to highlight the low quality of Google devices. Certainly case reports cannot replace defect rates and other meaningful statistics, but if manufacturers are deaf about the issues then it doesn't bode well for instance for security related issues.

I had similar bad issues with the fingerprint tech and would assume that the issue has at least 20% prevalence among the affected Pixel models.

I noticed this morning my 7a back adhesive has weakened already. Guess it ain't water resistant anymore and it's barely over a year old.

I had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro! I thought it was done for but it seems to have recovered over the last few months and I don't see it anymore.