Pixel Flip to Shhh gesture broken for some users

Google's Pixel smartphones are experiencing a widespread malfunction of the popular "Flip to Shhh" gesture, leaving users unable to silence notifications by placing their phones face down. The issue, reported by numerous Pixel owners in recent weeks, affects models ranging from the Pixel 7 series to the newly released Pixel 10.

The gesture-based feature, introduced with the Pixel 3 in 2018, allows users to enable Do Not Disturb mode by simply turning the phone screen-down on a surface. Reports began surfacing in early August 2026 that the feature stopped working, with the toggle either throwing a "can't turn on" error or vanishing entirely from the Settings menu. The problem appears linked to recent updates of the Digital Wellbeing app, specifically versions 1.45.962432453 and 1.46.949667801 released in early August.

Affected users have shared their frustrations on platforms like Reddit. One noted, "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 cant be turned on without any kind of specifics." Another user lamented the feature's disappearance: "I also tried different solutions until the option...