I have a Pixel 7 Pro and have been a GOS user for almost a year now. I had set my phone to auto-reboot after X hrs. Recently, after auto-rebooting, it just wouldn't accept the PIN to login.
The most obvious reason could be "You may have typed the PIN incorrectly". However, in my own defense, the PIN is so straightforward (for me) that the chance that I may have forgotten it, and typed something else seems unlikely.
Is it possible, that due to some bug or data corruption the PIN authentication mechanism could have been not behaving as expected, i.e. not accepting the correct PIN?
Has anyone else faced a similar situation, where they believe that it is likely that the PIN was correct, but GOS just stopped accepting it?
Anyways, I have reset the device using recovery option. So that is all fine and dandy. It is a bit inconvenient that I have lost some of my recent data and will have to go through the rigors of setting up required apps, but that is a price we pay for security & privacy. ;)
Thanks to the GOS community for all your support.