Good news, Android users. Google is going to step in and help you find the perpetrators. Google just announced the launch of ...

Starting March 2026, Google Play will flag Android apps that excessively drain battery power through background activity, ...

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

A quiet but game-changing shift is underway in mobile development. Thanks to a new update, developers may soon find it ...

Google launches a new Android metric to track battery-draining apps. Play Store warnings alert users about high background ...

Starting in March, Play Store app listings will show warnings for high background battery drain, and may even have limited ...

Producdevity shares a few examples, and beyond just benchmarking apps, these days some phones also try the same trick with ...

Google wants Android apps to stop wasting battery with excessive wake locks, and those that don’t meet a certain threshold ...

Google will penalize Android apps that drain your battery with a new "Excessive Partial Wake Lock" metric starting March 2026 ...

If there is no category where the subscription model feels most greedy, it’s password management. Services like 1Password and ...

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