- Google Pixel 9a phones are delivered with a new battery health aid tool
- He will intentionally abandon the maximum lifespan of your phone every 200 load cycles
- It goes out after 1,000 costs, and you cannot put it out before
The Google Pixel 9a has a new feature that will intentionally reduce your phone’s battery life over time – and you can’t do anything about it.
Although they are never the most exciting features, battery health tools are among the most useful that you will find on modern smartphones. Following best practices may guarantee that your phone does not become a solid battery well after a year or two of use and can extend the duration of the duration before buying a replacement lithium-ion cell for your handset.
And with its latest version of Google Pixel 9a, Google seems to take the health of the battery seriously with a new battery health assistance functionality which (at launch) will be exclusive to the new handset.
But rather than giving you the choice of how your phone invoices – like the manual definition of your device to reduce the load to 80%, or to reach only a full load just before when your phone expects that you unplug it – depending on the official assistance of the health page of Google to automatically lower the maximum loads of your battery every 200.
This gradual drop will continue every 200 cycles until your device finishes 1,000 cycles.
In addition, while Google has confirmed to 9TO5GOOGLE that the functionality “will be voluntary for all customers using previously launched devices” (that is to say that the other best Google Pixel phones), its help page for the Pixel 9A reveals that for its latest device, “The health aid of the battery on Pixel 9a are not customizable by the user.”
Now, some of you may fear that this means that your Google Pixel 9a lacks battery faster than if you could deactivate this feature, but the silver lining here is that this feature probably means that the battery of your phone lasts longer.
Over time, most batteries degrade anyway, so the 100% load after several months will not last as long as when the phone was new.
Hope is that even if you always lose battery performance over time, Google’s controlled descent will mean that your battery lasts longer per load than if you do not use battery health assistance.
Although we can understand that the lack of control over how you can manage your device is likely to rub a lot in the wrong direction, even if it is an upgrade. Nor does it do much to appease concerns surrounding the intentional performance of smartphones manufacturers to encourage you to upgrade your smartphone more regularly.
It seems that this feature is a disguised upgrade, however, and if it is a success, we will probably see that it appears on other Google smartphones in the future.
