Google’s surprise battery update for the Pixel 4a has caused severe battery drain for many users. Google has removed older firmware for the Pixel 4a, leaving users with no official way to downgrade ...

The Google Pixel 4a battery update does even more than we thought, reducing capacity by around 44% and halving the maximum charging speed on affected devices. The update also disables features like ...

Many Pixel 4a owners are experiencing drastically reduced battery life following an unusual update for this end-of-life phone. Despite Google announcing a "Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program" in ...

Google didn’t explain exactly why it shipped a mandatory software update to the Pixel 4a, an Android phone from 2020, earlier this year. The nature of that update, which gave some models all but ...

Facepalm: Software updates are traditionally designed to improve a device's performance and overall functionality. Occasionally, however, manufacturers are forced to release updates that have a known ...

At the start of 2025, Google announced a Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program with a new Android 13 OTA update, free battery replacement, and/or appeasement option. As part of this, Google has removed ...

What exactly is wrong with the batteries in some of Google’s Pixel 4a phones still out there? Google has not really said. Now that many Pixel 4a owners are experiencing drastically reduced battery ...

A few months after it first started rolling out, Google is now pushing the Pixel 4a battery update on users who had previously avoided it. Later, it was revealed that the drastic measures were due to ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Google's Pixel 4a was a great phone back when it came out, and it got significantly more praise than its bigger siblings, the ...