{"id":275448,"date":"2026-06-18T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:20:11","slug":"i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/","title":{"rendered":"I freed up 2GB of RAM by changing one Android setting, and my Pixel&#8217;s been flying ever since"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/\">I freed up 2GB of RAM by changing one Android setting, and my Pixel&#8217;s been flying ever since<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 08:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve tried practically every method of improving my phone\u2019s battery life. From tweaking my battery settings to uninstalling power-hungry apps, I can make any Android phone I own last for all day or more.<\/p>\n<p>However, I recently rediscovered a way to     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"1026648\">improve my phone\u2019s battery life<\/span> that involved a single toggle.    <\/p>\n<p>Hidden in the developer settings, this setting has not only improved my phone\u2019s battery life, it has also boosted my phone\u2019s performance. I\u2019ll take any boost I can get when I\u2019m rocking a Tensor-equipped Pixel.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tMy Google Pixel is infinitely better since I tweaked these settings<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Pixel settings you are probably ignoring<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"understand-background-activity-before-you-disable-it\">\n                        Understand background activity before you disable it<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"changing-this-setting-will-impact-how-your-phone-works\">\n            Changing this setting will impact how your phone works<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>The trick I use now to improve any Android phone\u2019s battery life involves setting the number of allowed background processes to zero.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s a common misconception&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-freed-up-2gb-of-ram-by-changing-one-android-setting-and-my-pixels-been-flying-ever-since\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I freed up 2GB of RAM by changing one Android setting, and my Pixel&#8217;s been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/01\/img_2286.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-275448","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\/275448"}],"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=275448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275450,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275448\/revisions\/275450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}