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TL;DR
- Pixel telephones are lastly getting the extremely anticipated battery charging restrict function.
- The function has arrived with the November safety replace for Pixel telephones.
- It permits customers to manually restrict charging as soon as their telephone reaches 80% capability.
Google has reportedly began rolling out Android 15‘s much-awaited battery charging limit feature. It permits customers to restrict charging as soon as their telephone reaches 80% capability. The function was beforehand anticipated to reach in December within the Android 15 QPR 1 launch.
A Telegram named @SlimRock consumer (through Assemble Debug) shared photographs of the brand new battery charging restrict function in motion on the secure Android 15 November update with construct quantity AP3A.241105.007 for Pixel telephones. You possibly can see the screenshots beneath. Nevertheless, we up to date our Pixel 8 Professional to the most recent November construct and are nonetheless unable to see the charging optimization possibility. It’s attainable this can be a server-side replace to the Settings companies app, however we’ll maintain an in depth eye and report again ought to the function arrive on our Pixel models.
We first reported concerning the battery charging restrict function again in July. When enabled, Pixel telephones will solely cost till their batteries attain 80% of their most capability. This might assist improve the lifespan of the telephone battery and profit customers who plug of their telephones for lengthy hours.
Charging a smartphone battery to 100% recurrently could cause extra stress on the battery and scale back its lifespan by accelerating its degradation. That is very true if the battery stays at full cost for lengthy intervals. The upper the cost stage, the extra stress the battery experiences. Therefore the brand new function ought to assist protect the long-term well being of the telephone’s battery.
