If a Pixel telephone is your day by day driver, it’s possible you’ll wish to preserve a charger close by. An Engadget reader contacted us on Sunday to report that their Pixel 6 Pro has just lately been overheating and excessively draining its battery. They believe the offender is the Google app and an replace that started rolling out on Could twelfth.
“I have not touched my telephone up to now hour. It is simply been on a typical wi-fi charger,” the reader says of a screenshot (seen beneath) they despatched of their telephone’s settings menu, displaying the Google app burning by means of the 6 Professional’s battery within the background. “Nonetheless extremely popular, and if I did not roll again to a special model, I would not have a internet improve on my telephone’s battery.”
Courtesy of Engadget reader
A go to to and the reveals different Pixel customers are experiencing the identical problem. “It simply began yesterday. Large battery utilization from Google app and to a lesser diploma Android System Intelligence. I simply went by means of and did a manufacturing unit reset, reinstalled most issues and it is nonetheless taking place,” one Reddit person wrote. “Past the battery not lasting the telephone is getting actually heat so I do know it is harming the battery and doubtlessly the CPU.”
Those that have tried contacting Google report the corporate’s assist employees haven’t been very useful. Some customers say rolling again to an older model of the Google app hasn’t mounted the issue for them. “Truly ended up with a good older model from Could 10, nonetheless draining the battery,” writes one Redditor. The reader who contacted us suspects the issue could also be server-side. “Google app retains wrecking the battery no matter model, and I’ve rolled all the way in which again to Could 1st,” they write. “I do not know how you can see if the app is attempting to name residence or on a loop with one thing like that, however the signs stay the identical.”
Google didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s remark request. If the Google app is at fault right here, it wouldn’t be the primary time a software program replace has induced complications for Pixel customers. Final Could, Google needed to after an earlier replace induced the telephones to provide a lot weaker haptic suggestions. The 12 months earlier than the corporate the rollout of its December Pixel replace after customers discovered it was making their telephones drop calls.
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