Pixel 11 screens wake on their own due to oversensitive lift gesture

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Pixel 11 owners report the Lift to check phone feature is waking their screens with very little movement.

Some commenters say the feature seems noticeably more sensitive than it was on their older Pixels.

Disabling Lift to check phone appears to be the only workaround to stop the issue right now.

Now that the Pixel 11 series has only been out in the wild for a short time, the inevitable early quirks are starting to emerge. One of them appears to involve Google’s usually handy ‘Lift to check phone’ feature, with Pixel 11 Pro owners reporting that their screens are waking with barely any movement at all.

A Reddit user raised the issue after noticing their new Pixel 11 Pro repeatedly waking while simply sitting on a table. After experimenting with the phone’s wake settings, they found that disabling the gesture stopped the behavior.