Although smartphones today are better than ever, one of the aspects that continues to concern all users is autonomy. No one wants to leave the house and run out of battery on their cell phone before they get home.. There are several ways to extend the battery life of our phones, and one of the most important is to limit excessive power consumption in the background.
Some native Google features on Android can also consume excessive battery life, even when we don’t need them. It is recommended disable background consumption of everything we don’t useso we recommend that you go to the settings menu of your mobile and deactivate this Google setting.
How to Disable Google Setting That May Affect Battery Life
Some applications consumes more power than others in the background, and this is something we can limit from the mobile settings menu if we don’t need these apps to run continuously. If this game or short video social network consumes too much battery even when you are not using this application, it is possible to avoid it.
Even some services and functions from Google and mobile phones themselves can do the same. This is the case of Google diagnostic functionwhich is designed to help the company improve the user experience in the operating system, but at the same time represents unnecessary consumption of resources for most users.
To deactivate it, follow these steps on any Android mobile:
- We go to the system settings menu then to the Google section
- We press the three-dot button in the upper right corner and select “Use and diagnosis“
- Finally, we deactivate the Usage and diagnostics option
Google normally asks us if we want to activate this function when first configuring the mobile, and many users usually accept this option (which is not mandatory) among the rest of the conditions of use that must be accepted to use Google. services. If you did, you can deactivate it following the steps already explained.
As we mentioned, this function Send reports and problem diagnostics to Google it can be on our cell phone, which it does from time to time in the background, consuming energy. If you don’t want this to affect your battery on a daily basis, the best thing to do is to turn it off. This way you will have greater autonomy.
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