TL;DR
- Some Pixel owners reported worse performance after installing September’s Android 17 QPR1 update.
- GrapheneOS says it has found a regression in the update that can cause lag, stuttering, freezes, and app crashes under memory pressure.
- While GrapheneOS has already patched the problem, stock Pixel users are still waiting for Google to release a fix.
Android 17 QPR1 was supposed to improve Pixel phones, but for a noticeable number of owners, the September update seems to have had the opposite effect. We recently asked Android Authority readers how their Pixels were behaving after installing the update, and performance problems stood out as the most common complaint among those who reported new issues. Now, GrapheneOS may have finally found the reason for at least some of that slowdown.
The privacy-focused project says it has identified a regression introduced with Android 17 QPR1 that can cause Pixel phones to stutter, lag, or even freeze when memory is under pressure. In more severe cases, affected processes can reportedly be terminated after becoming unresponsive.
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