[U: Fix Coming Soon] This video causes a reboot on Tensor powered Pixel devices

Mar 01/2023: Google has officially stated that this issue will be fixed in the upcoming March 2023 update.

Feb 26/2023: As we all know that some problems have been coming out in the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series for the last few times. A few days ago, the news came out that the volume key of Pixel 7 devices was falling on its own and there is a lot of silence.

When you open this video in the YouTube app, the device instantly goes into reboots. Although it is worth noting this is a “soft” reboot that takes you straight to the boot animation. This indicates a system crash.

Apparently, the problem only affected Google Tensor-based devices on the stable build of Android 13, and it may have something to do with HDR video processing. However, this issue does not occur on the beta version of Android 13 QPR2 (release in 2 weeks) and Android 14 Developer preview 1, so in fact the problem has already been fixed.

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