My guess is that Material You applied a colour scheme based on your wallpaper

You don’t want your ui to be 1980s beige, but like if the plastic has been sitting in a smokers house? Weird.

But yeah, this is material you. Its a feature that makes apps match the colors of your wallpaper, and if you go to “wallpaper and style” in the settings app (at least on my pixel 3, its possible it’d be somewhere else on a phone from a different manufacturer, or potentially even newer phones from google) you can pick other color options

It almost definitely is material you. Go to “wallpaper and style” in the settings and you should be able to change ui colours. Either to a different colour from your wallpaper, or a varied set of predetermined colours.

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Did you accidentally change the theme colour? Not sure what launcher you’re using but maybe long press in an empty spot on the home screen and see if you can change the theme tint.

I should add I’ve had Nova Launcher for probably 10 years and (without having this issue before) changed nothing. I currently have an LG V60, and use IFTTT to periodically update my phones wallpaper to the top post in r/earthporn. Aside from that, I don’t change my phones personalization settings and have never seen this happen before. I’m also currently running Android 13.

I can’t remember what it’s called, but there is a feature that changes your theme colors to match your background. Changed your background or lock screen lately?

Usually if I’m gonna be outside doing exercise or labor, I’ll flip my phone around in my pocket. It’s more comfortable putting the screen against my leg, but it does indeed somehow always manage to wake up when my leg gets sweaty. So if my leg is gonna get sweaty, my phone goes in backwards instead.

There is also the alternate option of disabling certain smart lock features, so that the phone is always fully locked in your pocket. I think just the one about not fully locking if it hasn’t left your person. Humans are never fully still, so it basically keeps the phone only partially locked until the second it’s completely still for an entire second. I kind of like that feature, so when deciding between that or remembering to turn my phone around, I went with the latter, but if you are in that position alot, it might be worth it to you to disable the feature.

The description is supposed to say night mode/color inverting*/… sorry for the typo.

What phone are you using?

Follow-up to the original posting:

I fixed the issue I was having, I just bought a S23 Ultra yesterday and it fixed all the problems I was having!