Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
Tl; DR
- Android 16 Beta 3 has a new battery health screen.
- Here, the operating system is trying to estimate how the current battery capacity compared when the phone was new.
- Users can access resources to educate them on improving battery endurance.
A long time ago, if you had a smartphone and its battery poses problems for you, all you had to do was turn off the rear panel of your phone, remove the unruly battery and exchange as a replacement. These days, we are more or less stuck with the same battery for the long term, so it should not be too surprising to see the companies pay increasing attention to the health of the battery, helping to extend the longevity of these sensitive components. With today’s release from Android 16 Beta 3, we see Google deliver its latest tool in this arsenal.
Google has already implemented batteries preservation features such as the adaptive load or the load limit of 80% for pixel phones. For a while, it seemed that the company also developed a new battery health screen, and we obtained an early overview of how this met in Android 16 Beta 2 from last month. Although it has not yet been accessible to the public at the time, Batter Health finally surfaced in Beta 3.
Much more than simply allowing you to change the load behavior and hope for the best, this new screen tries to quantify exactly the battery function of your phone. All chemical batteries will deteriorate over time, but with usable comments from a tool like this, you will be allowed to make intelligent decisions about how to manage the load of your phone.
If you still do not have the impression of having your head in all this “battery health” enterprise, Google also offers useful links to, hope, make sure that this beginning feels a little less to witchcraft and find out about the holistic view of the battery capacity.
Of course, information like this can also be a source of anxiety, and we will be very curious to see how users react to have this type of data at their disposal. Will the types of Doom-And-Gloom count because their battery capacity will give up the ghost a little more at each charge? Will this just feed a new wave of guarantee complaints? With Android 16 approaching its stable version, we will discover it in due time.
