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 ...

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Given how excessive battery drain is one “one of the most significant frustrations for Android users,” Google is starting a new effort to help developers optimize ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

What’s happened? Google is cracking down on Android apps that cause excessive battery drain by rolling out a new metric and updated Play Store policy. The “Excessive Partial Wake Locks” metric is now ...

Google has announced new performance standards for applications on Google Play, alongside improved app efficiency measures to address the rising cost of smartphone RAM memory and ensure smoother ...

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 ...

Google has released the Google Play Developer Reporting API, providing programmatic access to app-level data and metrics for internal reporting, analysis and automation. The API is designed to be used ...