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What’s happened? Google is cracking down on Android apps that cause excessive battery drain by rolling out a new metric and updated Play Store policy. The “Excessive Partial Wake Locks” metric is now ...

Google has issued new app quality guidelines to prevent apps from excessively draining your phone’s battery life. Starting March 1, 2026, if an app is found to be holding wake locks excessively, it ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

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