Google will begin clamping down on Android apps that drain a smartphone battery. The Play Store will begin showing warnings ...

Android users may soon know exactly which apps drain their phone battery, as Google Play prepares to introduce automatic background activity alerts.

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

A deep dive into The Android Resource Economy, a scrapped reimagining of how Android manages background apps using macroeconomic principles.

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

The feature is called Adaptive Battery. It's a setting that continuously learns your behaviors and optimizes itself based on ...

Google will penalise Android apps that cause excessive battery drain, using new wake lock rules to protect device performance.

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Assuming your phone is on and online, you should be able to see its location on a map. From there, you can make it ring, lock it, set a lock screen note to tell whoever has it how to get it back to ...