{"id":236562,"date":"2026-04-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-has-found-a-new-way-to-shame-battery-hogging-apps-before-you-even-install-them\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:15:09","slug":"google-has-found-a-new-way-to-shame-battery-hogging-apps-before-you-even-install-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-has-found-a-new-way-to-shame-battery-hogging-apps-before-you-even-install-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has found a new way to shame battery-hogging apps before you even install them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/play-store-battery-warnings\/\">Google has found a new way to shame battery-hogging apps before you even install them<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/play-store-battery-warnings\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/play-store-battery-warnings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android users are so used to weird battery drains that we barely question them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>We buy power banks, assume our phones are getting old, or tell ourselves we\u2019ve been on them too much. Sure, sometimes hardware really is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Other times, the problem is software running in the background and refusing to let the phone sleep. It looks like Google doesn\u2019t want to keep taking the heat for that.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 1, 2026, the Play Store can warn users when an app causes higher battery drain due to excessive background activity, and that\u2019s a change worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tHow to check battery health on your Android phone<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Phone running out of juice too soon? Check your battery health<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"partial-wake-locks-are-useful-until-they-are-not\">\n                        Partial wake locks are useful until they are not<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/play-store-battery-warnings\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has found a new way to shame battery-hogging apps before you even install them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/the-google-play-store-logo-with-a-battery-icon-wrapped-in-battery-hogging-caution-tape-and-a-warning-sign.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-236562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236564,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562\/revisions\/236564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}