So, I’m using a Pixel 4A, and almost daily, I end up having to reboot because the navigation bar overlaps the bottom of my apps or games, and rebooting is the only way I find to fix this.

Is there another way? Did anyone know? It’s getting very frustrating. Sometimes I can’t do very basic things because of this.

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    I noodled with my ‘cutout’ settings in developer options and had this sort of thing happen. Even if you don’t have a punch hole camera on the pixel 4 (I honestly don’t remember if it does), if your version of Android has settings for this, it can render the UI above or below the specified viewing area.

    I know this is the nav bar though, but it’s worth a shot.

    Settings > Developer options* > Display cutout

    *you may need to ‘become a developer’ to view these options first.

    Best of luck!

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      You should let people know that you actually mean enable developer settings and that’s what’s behind that link you provided because some might get turned off if they don’t get your joke (of they don’t know anything about it, how could they get the joke) and not even bother to open the link, assuming you actually mean they need developer skills or some sort of accreditation hehe

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    i would recommend you to use gesture navigation, its simple yet feels amazing

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        i mean…, it still count as fix right… but you will have to get used to it so its probably more difficult

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          No it doesn’t. It doesn’t actually fix the issue, it’s giving up and using an entirely different navigation system.

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        nothing people love doing on tech forums more than telling someone their question is dumb, and given them an answer to something they never asked.

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      If they allowed gestures and the three buttons concurrently, I’d use it.

      But not having the buttons at all is a deal breaker.

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        there’s also the 2 button navigation which is basically what you’re describing. I used that for a few months and that allowed me to transition to gesture navigation

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    Have you played with the “full screen” settings? usually at settings > display > full screen apps

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        I can approve you that the settings mentioned here doesn’t even exist in Pixel 4A. Only some ROMs add this option into their settings on their own, but it’s not a stock Android feature.

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      An alternative is to switch to gesture based navigation as it would remove the whole navigation bar.

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        Strongly recommend this too. It’s takes a minute to get used to but once you do, it feels very natural.

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          Agree. At first I didn’t like it too much but overall you get used to it moderately fast. There are instances where it fails you and the wrong gesture is triggered, but it’s worth getting rid of the old nav bar.

          Give it a try and be patient. :)

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          It has the bonus effect of confusing my wife every time she tries to use my phone so that’s pretty kickass.

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    Sometimes just a simple phone restart can do a lot. You could also try changing the navigation mode to gestures and then back to buttons which should force update the navigation bar position.

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      GrapheneOS is also another good option - I’ve been running it for 6+ months so far and I’m loving it! The only downside I can think of is the lack of Android Auto support, although that’s never been a thing that I’ve used

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        I remember Graphene OS creator getting mixed in some controversy that resolved fairly quickly but I don’t know what exactly happened tho so thats why I recomended calyx OS first

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          i think the controversy you’re talking about is probably this Why i deleted GrapheneOS by louis rossmann

          honestly, the rom is pretty solid, sadly the lead developer is acting quite weird you could give it a try but i would go for calyx os because if the leads dev looks like that, it just make me feel scary having his code run on my phone

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            I’m pretty sure he stepped down right after the controversy, but I’m too lazy to look it up to confirm

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          I’m pretty sure he stepped down right after the controversy, but I’m too lazy to look it up to confirm