Google’s newly launched Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones are the most impressive devices coming from the technology giant but similar to the previous models, these ones too have plenty of issues. Among them is the issue of the device randomly auto-dialing contacts in the middle of the night.
Later, the hot word detection feature of Google Assistant was found to be the culprit, and turning the feature off fixed the problem. The search engine giant quickly acknowledged the issue and has now resolved this with the latest version of the Google app which is now available in the Play Store.
According to a Pixel community manager on the /r/GooglePixel subreddit, updating to the latest Google app (12.43.18 or higher) should now fix the problem. They say that the update is rolling out on the Google Play Store. If you have disabled the “Hey Google” hotword detection feature, then it is now safe to re-enable it.
So, if you are using the Google Pixel 6 or the Pixel 6 Pro smartphone, then you should quickly update the Google app to the latest version as soon as possible to fix the ghost dialing issue on the device.
For those who are unfamiliar, some users of the newly launched Pixel series smartphones reported that even in quiet rooms, their phone would light up and say that it’s calling a random contact from the phone’s contact list. This was happening at different times with different contacts, and some have even reported it happening on older Pixel devices.
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