[SOLVED] GOOGLE APP BATTERY DRAIN ISSUE

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Hope you are all doing well, are healthy and safe 😊! 

Google app as such even if not used eats a lot of battery juice even in background and then many people face Battery issues here a solution! 

But Google eating battery 🔋 😅 

Users: 😭😭Nooooo! Google eats too much of battery 🔋! 

So here is me!

I noticed this issue of Google app drain too much battery 🔋 and did a bit of experiments on my device, searching and researching finally led me to the following conclusions:

And the end are some solutions on internet. 

Here I'm mentioning some Samsung Specific ones: 

So let's put Google app to sleep, use the power of Good Guardians Battery Tracker and Battery Guardian to make sure everything works out well 👍!

Credits: @Ekhans 

Long press on google app specially , then click on>app info> then go to these 3 options below on by one 

A. Mobile data> allow background data usage>off 

B. Battery >allow background activity >off 

C. Notification >disable unnecessary notifications like promotional and unnecessary reminder notifications.Besides above settings do some more settings to save more battery life and observe for next 1-2 days, it will give a noticeable difference 

1. Connection>more connections settings> disable nearby device settings 

2. Location>improve accuracy >disable

A. Wifi scanning

B. Bluetooth scanning . 

3. Device care>battery >power mode>select "optimised" and "adaptive power saving".

(It can decrease performance )

And then click on "app power management >

And enable these 2 options.

A. Adaptive battery

B. Put Unused Apps to Sleep. 

4. Long press on each app specially 3rd party(LIKE FACEBOOK, INSTA,YOUTUBE) and rarely used apps and also ON "GOOGLE APP" as well, then click on>app info> then go to these 3 options below on by one 

A. Mobile data> allow background data usage>off 

B. Battery >allow background activity >off 

C. Notification >disable unnecessary notifications like promotional and unnecessary reminder notifications. 

5. Go to settings >apps>search "weather" >click on settings icon right side > change "auto refresh" settings as per your requirements and disable some unnecessary reminder. ( due to auto refresh it continuously consuming battery?) 

6. If you use Facebook frequently then disable "auto play video"

And if you are mostly uses mobile, on wifi connection then also disable "auto play videos" in YouTube. 

Credits: @Robert633(Google Help) 

I think I have found the solution. This is what I have done  

1. I uninstalled google app from play store under my app. this doesn't remove the app, it just removes all the updates to date. (depending on a phone model ) 

2. I unchecked auto update on play store 

3. I have cleared cache and storage under settings -> app -> google  

4. I did force stop google app 

5. I disabled google app 

--- so at this point, google app is at it's factory setting without any update and disabled 

--- then I re-enabled the app 

--- google app is now on factory setting without any update enabled  

--- It seemed battery drain issue didn't appear with this setting 

--- just to make sure everything, I did turn off most of the assistant features, background use. only leaving bare minimum I need which was "ok google" voice matching feature 

--- battery drain still didn't appear. background activity showed 0%  

--- then I did turned on auto update on play store and updated google app to the latest version

It seemed battery drain is gone !

what I have noticed was if I activate google app by "ok google " , google app starts to use some battery. but after few minutes it goes back to sleep and doesn't drain battery background anymore. 

I just got a new note20 ultra. and this was just my 2nd day of use. So I'm not sure above procedure worked solely for me or will be able help other phones. But basically what I have done was to combine all the advices people given in previous comments. 

In sum, I think this problem could be from  

1. previous updates. so clearing update by uninstalling and getting only the latest one might have worked.  

2. maybe it was from google app features. I have turned off most of the features including location, ad, interest, background and so on. I have left voice matching plus only a couple.  

3. maybe it was from corrupted data in cache & storage combined with above factors. 

I have restarted my phone few times during above procedure. 

my procedure wasn't so neat and I could have turned off too many features that I actually could benefit from. so this solution can get refined by other users experiment. 

And finally , I am not completely sure if my phone would behave well tomorrow. it just looks good so far.  

hopefully my phone can stay this way !

Thanks 😊! Hope it's helpful 🙂 😊!