Fix battery drain problems on a Pixel phone
If your Pixel 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 longer. 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 find out which activities use the most battery.
Check apps
If your battery is dying faster than in the past, see whether apps are using too much battery. You can force stop or uninstall problem 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 recommended apps
- Open your device's Settings app
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- Tap Battery.
- If you see a card with advice to restrict an app, tap the card
Restrict.
Restrict.Find more apps to restrict
- Open your device's Settings app
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- Tap Battery
- Under 'Battery usage since full charge', see a list of apps with the percentage of your battery used.
Tip: To see services as well as apps, tap More - 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 optimisation on.
You don't need to close apps unless something goes wrong. Swiping apps closed doesn’t save battery.
But to completely turn off an app, including background services that could be using battery, you can force stop the app. To force stop and restart is like a 'hard reboot' for an app.
Important: If you force stop some essential apps or services, your device won't work correctly. Force stop isn’t available for all apps.
- To force stop an app:
- Open your device's Settings app
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- Tap Apps & notifications.
- Pick the app from the list.
- To see more apps, tap See all apps.
- If you don't see the list, tap App info.
- Tap Force stop
- Open your device's Settings app
- To start a stopped app, open it as usual.
- If the issue comes back after you start a stopped app, you can uninstall it.
If an app still uses too much battery after you’ve force stopped and restarted it, you can uninstall it.
- Touch and hold the app that you want to uninstall.
- Drag the app to Uninstall at the top of the screen. If you don't see 'Uninstall', you can't uninstall the app.
- Lift your finger.
Tip: You can see Uninstall, Remove or both. 'Uninstall' removes the app from your device. 'Remove' removes it from your Home screen only.
Check device
If no app is draining the battery, try these steps. They can fix issues that could drain battery in the background.
To restart your phone, press and hold the power button for a few seconds. Then, on your screen, tap Restart 
If you don't see 'Restart', press and hold the power button for about 30 seconds until your phone restarts.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Near the bottom, tap System
Advanced
- You'll see your update status. Follow any steps on the screen.
Advanced - On your phone, open the Google Play Store app
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- Tap Menu
- Apps with available updates are labelled 'Update'.
- If an update is available, tap Update.
- If more updates are available, tap Update all.
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Try advanced steps
To remove any processes on your device that could be causing the issue, you can reset your device to factory settings.
IMPORTANT: A factory data reset will remove all data from your device. While any data stored in your Google account will be restored, all apps and their associated data will be uninstalled. Before you perform a factory data reset, we recommend that you back up your device.
If an app that you downloaded caused the issue and you reinstall that app, the problem could come back.
If you're still having issues with your phone, you can post your questions to the Pixel community on our forums for other possible solutions.