I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was ...

Sound familiar? Foldable phones pack flagship performance into devices with dual power-hungry displays, creating a perfect storm of battery anxiety. Android 15 arrives with targeted optimizations that ...

Android typically forces low-priority apps to sleep so that they don't drain your phone's battery. Putting apps to sleep means they won't consume a lot of power and won't run in the background ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

Battery anxiety is the worst, and Battery Saver is a no-brainer feature that helps at just the right time. Standard Battery Saver steps in at the 20% mark, dims the interface, drops the screen refresh ...

Android 16 Beta 3 introduces a new battery health screen. Here the operating system attempts to estimate how current battery capacity compares to when the phone was new. Users can access resources to ...

Google’s Pixel 6a battery is prone to overheating after reaching a certain number of charge cycles, and Google has now acknowledged the issue and is preparing a fix for users who are impacted by the ...