If your phone's battery life seems poor or short, a downloaded app could be using too much battery. You can also choose settings to help your battery last. To troubleshoot battery drain, use the steps below.
Change settings
If your phone's battery life is too short, try these tips for longer battery life. You can also learn which activities use the most battery.
Check apps
Tip: You can’t force stop or uninstall Google Play services. Google Play services lets your phone use Google services. It’s integrated with Android. Learn about Google Play services.
Restrict apps with high background battery use
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Battery.
- If you see a card with advice to restrict an app, tap the card
Restrict.
Restrict apps with high overall battery use
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Battery
Battery usage.
- You can see a list of apps with the percentage of your battery used for the past 24 hours. Or you can also see system usage by tapping System usage for past 24 hr.
- To see or change how a listed app uses battery, tap it.
- For some apps, you can turn on Background restriction.
- For all apps, we recommend keeping Battery optimization on.
Important: If you force stop some essential apps or services, your phone won't work correctly. Force stop isn’t available for all apps.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Apps
All apps.
- Tap the app.
- Tap Force stop
OK.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Apps
All apps.
- Tap the app.
- Tap Uninstall
OK.
Tip: You can see Uninstall, Remove, or both. "Uninstall" removes the app from your phone. "Remove" removes it from your Home screen only.
Check phone
- On most phones, press your phone's power button for about 30 seconds, or until your phone restarts.
- On the screen, you might need to tap Restart
.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Near the bottom, tap System
System update. If needed, first tap About phone or About tablet.
- Your update status will appear. Follow any steps on the screen.
- Open the Google Play Store app
.
- At the top right, tap the profile icon.
- Tap Manage apps & devices.
- Under "Updates available," choose to update all apps or a specific app.