Navigation bar always ends up overlapping apps. Any way to prevent this?
So, I'm using a Pixel 4A, and almost daily, I end up having to reboot because the navigation bar overlaps the bottom of my apps or games, and rebooting is the only way I find to fix this.
Is there another way? Did anyone know? It's getting very frustrating. Sometimes I can't do very basic things because of this.
I noodled with my 'cutout' settings in developer options and had this sort of thing happen. Even if you don't have a punch hole camera on the pixel 4 (I honestly don't remember if it does), if your version of Android has settings for this, it can render the UI above or below the specified viewing area.
I know this is the nav bar though, but it's worth a shot.
You should let people know that you actually mean enable developer settings and that's what's behind that link you provided because some might get turned off if they don't get your joke (of they don't know anything about it, how could they get the joke) and not even bother to open the link, assuming you actually mean they need developer skills or some sort of accreditation hehe
there's also the 2 button navigation which is basically what you're describing. I used that for a few months and that allowed me to transition to gesture navigation
I can approve you that the settings mentioned here doesn't even exist in Pixel 4A. Only some ROMs add this option into their settings on their own, but it's not a stock Android feature.
GrapheneOS is also another good option - I've been running it for 6+ months so far and I'm loving it! The only downside I can think of is the lack of Android Auto support, although that's never been a thing that I've used
I remember Graphene OS creator getting mixed in some controversy that resolved fairly quickly but I don't know what exactly happened tho so thats why I recomended calyx OS first
Sometimes just a simple phone restart can do a lot. You could also try changing the navigation mode to gestures and then back to buttons which should force update the navigation bar position.