Some Pixel phones have forgotten how to Flip to Shhh

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Your Pixel phone comes with a handy little trick for those moments when you just can’t be bothered — it lets you turn your phone face down on a flat surface to silence all notifications. Called Flip to Shhh, it was released with the Pixel 3 all the way back in 2018. Up until recently, the gesture-based feature has largely worked as intended — that, however, is no longer the case for some.

Over the last couple weeks, several disgruntled users have taken to Reddit to air their frustration with the feature. Flip to Shhh had suddenly stopped working for many with no clear reason.

The bug manifests differently for many. For some, the feature was still listed in Settings but couldn’t be toggled on. For others, the option stopped appearing within Settings altogether.

“So my flip to shh randomly stopped working, and when I went to settings to turn it off and on again, I got a pop up saying that it can’t be turned on without any kind of specifics,” wrote one user, while a different Pixel owner notes, “I also tried different solutions until the option itself disappeared completely – very disappointed as this is a key feature in my daily usage during work or when I go to bed.”

The bug spans several different models, with confirmed reports from users of the Pixel 7, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and the Pixel 10.

The good news is that there appears to be a quick fix for the bug. The bad news is that there doesn’t seem to be a universal solution.

Over the last week, users have reported that manually updating the Digital Wellbeing app fixes the issue.