I turned off one Google app and gained nearly two hours of battery life Your phone uses the battery even when the screen is off. Some apps keep syncing and checking for updates in the background, but turning off every service that uses power can break notifications, updates, and other core features. Once I figured out which one was the worst offender on my phone, a few changes gave me close to two extra hours on a single charge. The surprise was that the name at the top of my battery list was not the app I needed to change. The scapegoat and the real culprit One app is framing another If you have ever opened your battery settings, you may have seen Google Play Services near the top of the list. It looks like the obvious culprit, so restricting it or force-stopping it can feel like the logical move. But that battery figure doesn't tell the whole story. It shows which service is doing the work, not necessarily which app is triggering it. Think of Google Play Services as Android's behind-the-scenes support system. It handles tasks such as location requests, account syncing, and push notifications for Google and other apps. Disabling or heavily restricting it is a poor fix: it can interfere with notifications, the Play Store, Maps, and sign-ins. On my phone, the app driving most of that activity was the Google app. Its location access, voice features, and background syncing kept calling on Play Services to stay active through wake locks that prevent the processor from sleeping. Play Services took the visible hit on the battery screen, but the Google app was the one pulling the strings. How I fixed it without uninstalling anything Background features you can safely turn off The first feature I turned off is the Discover feed. This is the news stream inside the Google app.#google #gemini_app #android #google_app #google_play_services
