{"id":619788,"date":"2026-04-21T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:04:09","slug":"pixel-phones-are-having-battery-problems-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619788\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel phones are having battery problems again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pixel phones undoubtedly offer one of the best Android experiences, but if there’s one issue that keeps cropping up, it’s battery trouble.<\/p>\n

Google has previously had to roll out software updates for the Pixel 4a and Pixel 6a to address overheating battery<\/a> concerns, and there were even reports of some Pixel 6a devices catching fire<\/a>. Meanwhile, Pixel 7 users have flagged issues with swollen batteries<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Now, adding to the list, the April 2026 update for Google Pixel phones appears to be causing widespread battery drain for some Pixel owners, significantly impacting day-to-day battery life.<\/p>\n

As 9to5Google<\/a> points out, there have been hundreds of comments on Google’s Issue Tracker<\/a> in recent days about the problem, along with numerous Reddit threads<\/a> from frustrated Pixel users reporting their batteries draining unusually fast, in some cases even when their devices are idle.<\/p>\n

“I am going crazy with this new battery problem since the latest update,” one Redditor wrote. “My Pixel 9a used to last all day — I usually went to bed with battery around 20%. Now suddenly I am always at 20% in the middle of the afternoon.”<\/p>\n

The culprit may have been identified<\/p>\n

Google is aware and working on a fix<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

What makes matters worse for Google is that this battery drain issue isn’t limited to a single device but affects all sorts of Pixel phones across different generations, from the Pixel 6 series to the Pixel 10 series.<\/p>\n

As for what’s behind the issue, one user<\/a> on Google’s Issue Tracker believes it stems from a bug introduced in the March update that persists in the April update. According to their findings, the bug prevents the CPU from entering “Deep Doze” — a low-power state that throttles performance and background activity when your device is idle to reduce battery usage.<\/p>\n

Without Deep Doze kicking in, the CPU continues running at full power even with the screen off, leading to significant battery drain.<\/p>\n

“Battery life has decreased significantly on Pixel 10 Pro here since the last update as well – getting about 1\/2 the screen time from 80% charged compared to before,” one user on Google’s Issue Tracker wrote, while a Pixel 7a user commented, “Also experiencing excessive battery drain issue, even when leaving phone on battery saver mode 24\/7, dropping over 50% in under 5 hours with intermittent use.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Google is aware of the issue<\/a> and is investigating, but there’s no timeline for when a potential fix will be rolled out. Given how dramatically this is affecting battery life for some users, hopefully, Google puts the pedal to the metal on this and gets a fix worked out and rolled out sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGoogle<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTensor G5<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6.3-inch Actua Display 1080 x 2424 pixel resolution OLED (60-120Hz)<\/p>\n

Google’s Pixel 10 features the tech giant’s new Tensor G5 chip and a three-camera setup for the first time that includes a 10.8-megapixel telephoto camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pixel phones undoubtedly offer one of the best Android experiences, but if there’s one issue that keeps cropping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-619788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}