Android users are experiencing severe drainage in their phones after a recent update, and Google is reportedly looking into it.
“Following the rollout of the April 2026 update on Google Pixel phones, a widespread battery drain issue has hit, but the company is looking into the matter,” 9to5Google reported.
The number of users complaining about the “severe idle drain” issue has been quickly increasing on Google’s issue tracking site.
At the time of reporting, over 2500 people voted on the tracker that they’ve been impacted by the issue.
“The sheer amount of attention on this thread tells us this issue is pretty widespread,” 9to5Google wrote, noting that there were also reports of the issue on Reddit and other forums.
As of now, there is no fix, but Google has asked forum users to provide the company with more information.
“What’s more concerning is that it doesn’t seem limited to a specific device,” Android Central noted. “Users across multiple generations, from the Pixel 6 series all the way up to the Pixel 10 lineup, are reporting similar battery drain issues.”
One person said on the Issue Tracker that their “battery now no longer lasts a full day,” while another wrote that it’s happening on their phone and they “already had the battery replaced.”
“This bug has made me quite literally want to cry bc I’m kinda nomading it in the city and having my lifeline die after seriously 2 hours of continuous use is crazy,” someone else wrote.
“My battery life seems to be almost halved since the update and the phone gets stuck on life support,” one shared.
Another angry user said, “Google is out of their mind pricing these products as premium devices then rolling out subpar hardware and software.”
One user found that the issue seems to boil down to CPU wakeups as the phone works continuously in the background, even when the screen is off, and it’s not being used.
Others have shared that they noticed the battery drain even when their phone is on airplane mode, while battery life has lasted for just a few hours of screen time, or even been cut in half for some.
“My phone has definitely been draining way faster and running really hot in my pocket. I went to bed with my phone at 65 percent to waking up in the morning at 6 percent. I hope this gets fixed,” someone shared on Reddit.
On Google’s Issue Tracker, the company acknowledged the issue by explaining that they “only have battery statistics, which lack the necessary detail for analysis.”
“Without a bug report, we can’t pinpoint the specific application causing the problem,” Google responded, and they asked users to provide a “comprehensive bug report for a deeper investigation.”
