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I agree this needs to be fixed. Coming from a Note 10 which is like 5 years old at this point I never had the gesture hint visible the entire time. I just got my pixel 7 pro today and I can't hide this hint and it's very annoying and takes up space that is sorely missed when going horizontal. This should be easily fixed tbh.

Please implement this 🙏 this option is available on literally any other Android phone.

In terms of use case, this provides us with a more immersive user experience. The current navigation bar takes up screen real estate and is an eyesore.

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+1 please let me hide it...

> Jun 27, 2023 02:38PM
"We have shared this with our product and engineering team..."
Any update on this? It has been over 4 months ano no update ever since. Wow.

If my oled screen will burn because of gesture bar, warranty will cover this?

Please, add this option

Pixel 7, Android 14, and the bar is still there. My screen in getting more and more burned with every passing day. Please, let us hide it!

what an odd thing. i have this option on all my devices, except pixel

I was HARDCORE a Pixel fan. Now I'll never buy another one. I literally had to root my phone previously JUST to remove that bar. Now that has been taking away as well. Also They removed the only NON-ROOT option to get that monstrosity off the screen. I run THE best launcher (nova beta from their site,not play store, as play store "beta" is broke) But seriously, Why are people forced to root for things that IMO should be baseline? Did Apple take over @ Google or what? Again WAS almost if not FanBoi level for my pixel but tbh I think I'll buy a flip phone. Sad....

P.S. Give us an option to turn the Gesture Bar off please. I mean Pixel Experience has a toggle.....They out-do the factory ROM...

I bought the Pixel 7 Pro a couple of months ago... and I'm looking to sell and get a different brand. Which is a shame really. It is absolutely ridiculous that this is not an option on Pixel phones, yet you can do it on pretty much every other android phone out there. Why would such a basic android feature be removed from Pixel OS?

Being able to hide the gesture bar would make the display feel clean instead of how jank and clunky it looks/feels with it there.

Agreed! Option to hide it please! Even put it in dev settings and have it on by default so people that know what thede doing can go disable it. It's an easy feature to implement.

Would be great to have this option, thanks in advance!

why is there a white bar on the bottom of the screen that you can't hide????? this must be a bug

Google please add an option to remove the navigation bars on pixel phones. It's really annoying and takes up usable screen space. Other android phones like Samsung s23 ultra have an option to hide it permanently.

Even if by default it is enabled there should be an option to hide the bar and still have all the gestures from the bottom of the screen working just fine.

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Truly one of the biggest frustrations with my Pixel 7. I've been searching for a way to get rid of the bar since I got this phone. Even my Redmi phone didn't have this issue.

I agree, it's absolutely ridiculous every other Android vendor has this figured out and Google's has the "no button button", an oxymoronic bar that burns in OLED screens in an OLED phone. This was my second biggest reason to opt for an S22 Ultra instead of a Pixel Pro. It reeks of planned obsolescence or careless factory engineering, and I'm not sure which is worse.

I just got my Pixel 8 Pro and seeing this pill on the bottom of the screen is irritating me.

Why should anyone need to replace their screen/device due to screen retention just because Google engineers were lazy enough to add the option to disable it.

Please Google, add the option on the next software update. I don't want to go back to Samsung.

Google+ all over again. Stop force-feeding features to increase metrics. This is something that should be able to be disabled

Proszę o możliwość usunięcia belki, przeszkadza we wszystkim, posiadam pixel 7

All the comments +1, I'm so disappointed that this single feature, longed for by so many, is not implemented after so many years...

+1. annoying

COME ON

Please let me hide the navigation bar! It looks clumsy and takes up screen real estate. Also for me, it serves no purpose whatsoever!

If you guys really want to copy iOS, then look at them! Look at what they can do with the navigation hint!
- It's hidden on home screen because there is just no need
- It's hidden after a short while with app in immersive mode, and one swipe up will go home, not two
- ALL APPS support drawing edge-to-edge
- It adapts colours very quickly and aesthetically
- It works super well with app switching, app opening and recent view with no glitch. Android's one just appear and disappear in a jarring way

If you guys cannot be a good copycat then please don't copy at all!

Would be really nice to have the option to hide the navigation pill, especially since majority of the app developers does not optimise for it.

Please add the option to hide the gesture bar/navigation pill. It doesn't do anything.

The navigation bar is very disturbing when in landscape mode on Pixel phones, since it uses a lot of space without giving any benefit. This makes web browsing in landscape mode in Chrome a pain for example.

+1 give the option to hide it.

Omg let me hide this ****** bar

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Please just allow the option to hide the navigation bar.
It is just a waste of screen real estate and serves no purpose.

It's a simple request that can be added simply by a push of a button. I beg of you Google, please just add this in. I want to remove it so bad.

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I will not be buying another pixel phone because of this and the OLED Burn in this causes. Off to Samsung for me. Thanks Google for ignoring this request for multiple years.

It's been quite some time. I would like to know at what point the development of the fix is at. Bear in mind that not only there's no workaround anymore besides rooting but that this IS a major flaw in user interface since it takes up around 1/30 of a pixel 8 screen when minimized and in other cases such as when using the keyboard it gets to taking up to around 1/15 of the display... Understandable mistake, of course, everyone makes mistakes, but still a mistake that I'd love to know if I will ever se addressed and maybe with an ETA so I won't have to void my new pixel 8 warranty because of a simple fix. I still love the phone but google's indifference I've seen in posts all around reddit, forums and the issue tracker about this issue kinda disappointed me

W.T.F. You serious Google? Are you really allowing Apple and sheeple to sway your decision making ability towards indifference? Cool cool cool. I'll give you until general release of Vanilla Ice Cream, and if this isn't RE IMPLEMENTED, I'll be leaving your ecosystem completely. Worse, I'll come back here and explain in detail how exactly to accomplish that to the point where if one follows, you will "forget" everything about them and never know of them again. I look forward to your full compliance.

What a shame. Rooting is the only way out of this. Feels like Google really wanted screens to burn in. So much for "going green" or "long lasting device" I'd be damned if I get an OEM unlock disabled phone.

If you want one more sale on your future 9 Pro XL, you know what to do.

Makes no sense that there is no setting for this, all we are asking is a way to hide the navigation pill permanently. Could even be a developer setting if it has to be.

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Switched to oneplus open, 50% of the decision goes to this crazy navigation pill wasting my screen.

Please remove nav bar pill

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Please remove nav bar pill

Please allow hiding the nav bar pill

Please, Please PLEASE add this feature! People are rooting their phones to achieve this, whereas other companies like Samsung and OnePlus have them as readily available features to toggle.

i don't want a navbar pill burned into my screen. Pls make it happen!

Please show some good will and add this feature.

It's almost going to be a year and this simple feature is not implemented >:(

How can you sell OLED phone that have a useless UI element that will get burnt into the screen?

Speaking of, let us also hide the status bar at the top, pls.

Please stop force feeding me this ugly and useless gesture pill. I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't need it.

While I can understand the concern that this might interfere with certain app behaviors, having experienced the feature on various Android skins for several years at this point, I have yet to encounter an app where gesture interactions conflict with the app I'm using after removing the bar.

The move to edge-to-edge enforcement in Android 15 will certainly make the bar's presence more aesthetically pleasing than the previous blacked-out region of the screen, but even so, it continues to needlessly take up space that could be filled by the app I'm using, and it continues to be a burn-in risk for the vast majority of devices.

If easy access to the new Circle to Search is a concern, might I suggest putting that feature onto the Recents screen alongside Screenshot and Select? This would require one more interaction to activate, but given that I don't feel much friction in the Screenshot interaction, I don't imagine this would keep me from using the CTS feature either.

Please add option to hide this.
People should have the choice if they want to hide or not and everyone is happy.

It's been over a year now, please implement this feature into stock android so that people can choose whichever brand and be happy rather than having to make sacrifices due to certain brand's features that should come stock.

Hi there, me again here to ask please, PLEASE, add this to the android 15 update, I am begging you developer all I wish for is a toggle so that my screen has less of a burn in risk.

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all other phones I've had, didn't have this annoying ugly bar at the bottom of the screen.

Please let me hide the bar.

Please, let us hide the navigation bar!

One of the best parts of gesture navigation is that it gets rid of the three icons at the bottom of the screen. Why are they replaced with a useless white pill/bar?
Please let us have the option to remove this eyesore from our home screen. It's serving no purpose and detracts from the aesthetic of a simple interface.
I know that there are ways to remove it with root, but I'd rather just have the option to hide it instead of having to sacrifice security and features for something that should be included as an option anyway.

White gesture bar when in dark mode is very distracting.

Come on Google, please pay attention, and get this resolved!

Please fix this it messes with the UX.

Add this and I'll finally buy a Pixel. C'mon - it's just a toggle...

Please add. Years waiting just for a toggle.
Every other brand has the option to HIDE. Samsung, Xiaomi, ZTE, OnePlus...

Hoping Android 16 has this feature.

Hello? Google? Wake up, five years of screen burn in happening here...

Please ?

Pleaaaaase.  It's so annoying.  

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Implement this asap please @google

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I just came from an s22 to an pixel 8 pro, and i must say the damn gesture hint pill is so annoying, especially when it chooses to be a random colour. please implement a fix google. Also let us force apps to be fullscreen.