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by kpozin 1231 days ago
I have a Pixel 6A on T-Mobile. I keep 5G turned off because it's usually slower and flakier than LTE, visibly chews through the battery (a percentage point every couple of minutes), and heats up the phone.
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Are you running the latest Android release on it? I had a Pixel 6 Pro on T-Mo and experienced almost identical issues until I updated it some months ago

Turns out Google pushed the 6 series out before the OS was "ready" and "forgot" to tell anyone

Anyone know if there's a way to disable 5G on a Pixel 7? Using Visible, a Verizon MVNO.
For me, I switched the preferred network type to LTE in Settings > Network & Internet > SIM > Preferred network type.