The Android date picker doesn’t let you pick dates

The job of a date picker is to let you pick dates, simple as that. Apparently, the Android system date picker doesn’t let you pick dates very easily.

On a stock Google Pixel, open the Contacts app and try adding a birthday to a contact, including the year. If you manually type the year and then press OK, the year won’t be actually selected, reverting back to the default one (i.e. the current year).

There’s no way to get the year you want to save, unless you tap on a different input field before pressing OK (you must tap an input; just tapping outside doesn’t do anything either).

I wonder how many people saved wrong dates because of this clearly unpolished UX.