Android phones are getting more powerful day by day. With bigger and brighter screens, powerful processors, and high-end features, poor battery life remains a common issue in modern smartphones.
In this guide, we’ll look at Google’s AI-driven Adaptive Battery feature, which is designed to help in improving your Android phone’s battery life. How does it work and how can you tell if it’s enabled on your smartphone?
What Does Adaptive Battery Do?
Introduced with Android 9, Adaptive Battery is a battery-saving feature that uses Google’s DeepMind AI technology. It is a result of collaboration between Android and DeepMind AI, and it aims to improve battery life on Android phones over time by learning your usage patterns and optimizing your apps accordingly. So how does Adaptive Battery work?
Usually, hundreds of processes run in the background on your Android phone. Some are useful and should run all the time, like location services that can be helpful to trace your phone if it’s lost, but others are not that important, and stopping them will improve the battery life.
Adaptive Battery takes account of every app and feature you use, the period you use it for, the amount of battery it drains, and when you usually charge your device. Once familiar with your app usage, it will limit the background activity of all other unnecessary apps you don’t use frequently.
By learning your charging pattern, Adaptive Battery will try to stretch the battery life until the time when you usually put your phone on charge. Sometimes to attain this (usually when the battery is low), it may also reduce your phone’s performance and background app activities.
The effect of all these limitations on your overall phone’s performance will be negligible, and doing this also reduces idle battery drain—the amount of power used when your phone is asleep.To achieve this, Android sorts all your apps into buckets based on how often you use them.
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