Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority One of the principal goals of Google Pixel updates is to fix things, so it can be doubly frustrating when an update makes your Android experience worse. Battery life seems to be the latest sore point. Last week, we noticed growing complaints from Pixel owners who said their phone battery was suddenly draining much faster than usual after the March update.

We wanted to know whether this was a fairly isolated issue, so we asked whether you were seeing the same thing. Our previous story highlighted reports from Reddit and Google’s support forums suggesting the issue wasn’t limited to one handset or two. Complaints appeared to span several Pixel generations, and one theory pointed to a bug that may be stopping affected phones from properly entering a low-power idle state. At the time, that was still just informed speculation from users trying to work out what had changed.