Leave nowhere

Return your Pixel to the stock Android it shipped with — supported, about 15 minutes, and your data stays safe in your storage. Chrome / Edge on a computer (WebUSB).

Before you start

Nothing on the phone is the only copy

Log off on the phone as usual — that seals everything to your storage. Leaving wipes the phone (that is part of bootloader unlocking), but your profiles are not on it: they stay in your storage, and the export page can download them for as long as your plan runs.

Step 1 · on the phone

Allow unlocking

At the gate: Settings → Device (your device passphrase) → Leave Nowhere → Open developer settings, then switch OEM unlocking ON and confirm. If that button is unavailable on your build: Settings → About phone → tap Build number 7×, then System → Developer options → OEM unlocking.

Step 2 · connect

Put the phone in fastboot and connect it

Power the phone off, hold Volume-Down + Power until you see FASTBOOT, plug it into this computer, then connect.

Step 4 · remove our key

Remove nowhere’s signing key

This erases nowhere’s update key from the phone’s trust store — the one thing Google’s tool doesn’t do. Stock Android boots either way; this just makes the exit clean, so the phone trusts exactly what it trusted from the factory.

Step 5 · finish at Google

Install stock Android

Close this tab first (so Google’s tool can reach the phone), then open Google’s official flasher. Pick your Pixel, keep Wipe device and Lock bootloader selected, and let it run — it downloads the factory image, flashes it, and locks the phone. When it finishes, the phone is exactly as it shipped.

Open flash.android.com →
ready.

Your storage is untouched by any of this: the plan keeps running, export keeps working, and a new nowhere install can pick your profiles right back up. Stuck? support@beta.nowhere.mobile