From March 1, 2026, Google will introduce battery usage warning labels for Android apps that consume excess power in the ...

The task manager is a powerful tool to manage apps running in the background. By pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc, you can open ...

Google has also rolled out a new Android Vitals metric that measures excessive use of wake locks. These occur when an app ...

If you're just walking, running, or on a bike or PEV ride, you may be able to mitigate power drain somewhat by locking your ...

For users, this update offers clearer transparency, and one more tool to avoid apps that quietly kill battery life behind the scenes.

If your iPhone battery drains faster after updating to iOS 26, wait 24–48 hours for background tasks to settle. Then update to iOS 26.1, restart your iPhone, check and update battery-draining apps, ...

Google's new “excessive partial wake locks” metric tracks apps keeping your CPU awake too long in the background. Apps that ...

You wouldn’t want to trigger a battery app-ocalypse. Closing open iPhone apps might seem like a surefire way to save juice, but this measure can actually have the opposite effect, according to Apple ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google says it’s experimenting with adding background playback to the live TV streaming service on its iOS and ...

Apple is working on a new framework that will allow photo apps to back up images more reliably. Here are the details.