{"id":746025,"date":"2026-04-22T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:31","slug":"android-users-see-severe-battery-drain-after-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746025\/","title":{"rendered":"Android users see ‘severe’ battery drain after latest update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Android users are experiencing<\/a> severe drainage in their phones after a recent update, and Google is reportedly looking into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the rollout of the April 2026 update on Google Pixel phones, a widespread battery drain issue has hit, but the company is looking into the matter,\u201d 9to5Google reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The number of users complaining about the \u201csevere idle drain\u201d issue has been quickly increasing on Google\u2019s issue tracking site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time of reporting, over 2500 people voted on the tracker that they\u2019ve been impacted by the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sheer amount of attention on this thread tells us this issue is pretty widespread,\u201d 9to5Google wrote, noting that there were also reports of the issue on Reddit<\/a> and other forums.<\/p>\n

As of now, there is no fix, but Google has asked forum users to provide the company with more information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s more concerning is that it doesn\u2019t seem limited to a specific device,\u201d Android Central noted<\/a>. \u201cUsers across multiple generations, from the Pixel 6 series all the way up to the Pixel 10 lineup, are reporting similar battery drain issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

One person said on the Issue Tracker that their \u201cbattery now no longer lasts a full day,\u201d while another wrote that it\u2019s happening on their phone and they \u201calready had the battery replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bug has made me quite literally want to cry bc I\u2019m kinda nomading it in the city and having my lifeline die after seriously 2 hours of continuous use is crazy,\u201d someone else wrote.<\/p>\n

\"Close-upOver 2500 people voted on Google\u2019s Issue Tracker that they\u2019ve been impacted by the issue. Ascannio \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cMy battery life seems to be almost halved since the update and the phone gets stuck on life support,\u201d one shared.<\/p>\n

Another angry user said, \u201cGoogle is out of their mind pricing these products as premium devices then rolling out subpar hardware and software.\u201d<\/p>\n

One user found that the issue seems to boil down to CPU wakeups as the phone works continuously in the background, even when the screen is off, and it\u2019s not being used.<\/p>\n

\"GoogleThe number of users complaining about the \u201csevere idle drain\u201d issue has been quickly increasing. Tada Images \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Others have shared that they noticed the battery drain even when their phone is on airplane mode, while battery life has lasted for just a few hours of screen time, or even been cut in half for some.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy phone has definitely been draining way faster and running really hot in my pocket. I went to bed with my phone at 65 percent to waking up in the morning at 6 percent. I hope this gets fixed,\u201d someone shared on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Google\u2019s Issue Tracker, the company acknowledged<\/a> the issue by explaining that they \u201conly have battery statistics, which lack the necessary detail for analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a bug report, we can\u2019t pinpoint the specific application causing the problem,\u201d Google responded, and they asked users to provide a \u201ccomprehensive bug report for a deeper investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android users are experiencing severe drainage in their phones after a recent update, and Google is reportedly looking…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":746026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[17],"tags":[2718,19979,2722,611,10740,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-746025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-batteries","tag-google","tag-mobile","tag-smartphones","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116450101221954423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}