Google wants to address excessive app battery drain with a new wake lock metric in the Android Vitals dashboard. Google is partnering with device makers to pinpoint causes of excessive wake locks to ...

It's happened to all of us. You fully charge your smartphone battery because you know you'll be out for the whole day and, somehow, your battery dies. Your smartphone doesn't always run out of charge ...

The metric flags apps that keep devices awake for more than two hours in a 24-hour period. Apps with over 5% excessive wake lock sessions will be classified as high battery drain. Developers are ...

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Google will now label battery draining apps in the Google Play store. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It's happened to all of us. You fully charge your smartphone battery ...