- Google Pixel 9A phones come with a new battery health assistance tool
- It will intentionally drop the maximum battery duration of your phone every 200 load cycles
- Goes out after 1,000 charges, and cannot turn it off before then
Google Pixel 9A has a new feature that will intentionally reduce the battery life of your phone over time, and there is nothing you can do about it.
While they are never the most exciting characteristics, battery health tools are some of the most useful that you will find on modern smartphones. The following best practices can ensure that your phone does not become a massive battery sink after a year or two of use and can extend how long it can arrive before buying a replacement lithium ion cell for your phone.
And with its last launch of Google Pixel 9a, Google seems to be taking the health of the battery with a new battery health assistance function that (at the launch) will be exclusive to the new phone.
But instead of giving an option on how your phone is charged, such as manually configuring your 80%load device, or only reaching a complete load just before, when your phone expects you to unleaven it, according to the health assistance of the Google official aid battery, it will automatically reduce the maximum battery charge every 200 load cycles.
This gradual decrease will continue every 200 cycles until its device completes 1,000 cycles.
In addition, while Google has confirmed to 9to5google that the function “will be voluntary for any customer who uses devices previously released” (that is, the other best Telephones of Google Pixel) its help page for Pixel 9A reveals that for its last device, “battery assistance configuration of the battery in Pixel 9a is not customizable by the user.”
Now, some of you could be worried that this means that your Google Pixel 9A runs out of faster battery than if you could turn off this function, but the silver lining here is that this feature will probably mean that the battery of your phone lasts more.
Over time, most of the batteries are degraded anyway, so 100% load after several months will not last as much as it did when the phone was new.
The hope is that, although it continues to lose the performance of the battery over time, the controlled descent of Google will mean that its battery lasts more for loading of what it would do if it did not use the health assistance of the battery.
Although we can understand that the lack of control on how you can administer your device is likely to rub many in the wrong way, even if it is an update. Nor does much to relieve concerns about intentional performance strangulation of smartphone manufacturers to encourage your smartphone more frequently.
However, it seems that this function is an update disguised, and if it is a success, we will probably see that it appears in other Google smartphones in the future.
