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 ...

A forthcoming Play Store notice will say alert users to battery-draining apps. The tag, scheduled for 1 March 2026, will shove affected Android apps down store rankings and remove them from discovery ...

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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