https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/googles-pixel-storage-issue-fix-requires-developer-tools-and-a-terminal/

Google has another fix for the second major storage bug Pixel phones have seen in the last four months. Last week reports surfaced that some Pixel owners were being locked out of their phone's local storage, creating a nearly useless phone with all sorts of issues. Many blamed the January 2024 Google Play system update for the issue, and yesterday Google confirmed that hypothesis. Google posted an official solution to the issue on the Pixel Community Forums, but there's no user-friendly solution here. Google's automatic update system broke people's devices, but the fix is completely manual, requiring users to download the developer tools, install drivers, change settings, plug in their phones, and delete certain files via a command-line interface.

The good news is that, if you've left your phone sitting around in a nearly useless state for the last week or two, following the directions means you won't actually lose any data. Having a week or two of downtime is not acceptable to a lot of people, though, and several users replied to the thread saying they already wiped their device to get their phone working again and had to deal with the resulting data loss (despite many attempts and promises, Android does not have a comprehensive backup system that works).