Has your Pixel 9 gotten worse at recording video recently?
Published on: 2025-08-15 12:35:15
Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR Owners of Pixel 9 family phones report stuttering and tearing video recorded from their cameras.
The issues seem to manifest when recording while zoomed in.
It’s possible a recent software update may be responsible
Across the world of smartphones, the landscape is always evolving. Every day we see the arrival of new updates, apps, and firmware patches that change the mobile experience for users in myriad ways — both desired and not. And while some of those changes are quite conspicuous, others are much more difficult to characterize, and we’re left wondering if something’s truly different, or if we’re just imagining things. Right now, we find ourselves in just such that kind of situation, asking if Pixel 9 video recording quality is getting worse, or if we’re just hallucinating.
While browsing Reddit’s GooglePixel sub the other day, we spotted a post from user oowwweee that caught our our eye, complaining about worse-than-expected video quality
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