Background Battery Usage

[Go0gle]

Hi All,

I have a Galaxy S21 Ultra and I am absolutely thrilled with it (coming from Pixel 4) however I am having problems with background Battery Usage.

I have triple checked that "allow background data usage" and "allow background activity" are disabled in the specific app permissions however some apps are still reporting that they are active for hours in the background.

The worst offender is my browser, I have tried both Chrome and Brave, and it typically ends up being 20-30% of my battery usage despite almost never using them.

The second worst offender is Outlook (I need it for work unfortunately), which reports 3-4 hours of background usage per charge despite all background activity disabled including notifications.

Finally there is TikTok, again with all background activity disabled it reports over an hour of background usage with 10-20% battery usage per charge.

My overall battery life is OK, but I am a light user and can't help but wonder if it could be much better if the background restrictions were working as they should. I suppose it's possible the battery reporting is incorrect, but that's all I have to go on. The only other thing I can think of is the Android system is using my browser for lots of other stuff that I am not aware of, but that still doesn't explain the other apps.

Is there something I'm missing? I'm hoping it's just something silly. I've had the phone for nearly a month and it's gone though several charge cycles. Thanks in advance.

 

[pags11]

Hi All,

I have a Galaxy S21 Ultra and I am absolutely thrilled with it (coming from Pixel 4) however I am having problems with background Battery Usage.

I have triple checked that "allow background data usage" and "allow background activity" are disabled in the specific app permissions however some apps are still reporting that they are active for hours in the background.

The worst offender is my browser, I have tried both Chrome and Brave, and it typically ends up being 20-30% of my battery usage despite almost never using them.

The second worst offender is Outlook (I need it for work unfortunately), which reports 3-4 hours of background usage per charge despite all background activity disabled including notifications.

Finally there is TikTok, again with all background activity disabled it reports over an hour of background usage with 10-20% battery usage per charge.

My overall battery life is OK, but I am a light user and can't help but wonder if it could be much better if the background restrictions were working as they should. I suppose it's possible the battery reporting is incorrect, but that's all I have to go on. The only other thing I can think of is the Android system is using my browser for lots of other stuff that I am not aware of, but that still doesn't explain the other apps.

Is there something I'm missing? I'm hoping it's just something silly. I've had the phone for nearly a month and it's gone though several charge cycles. Thanks in advance.

Put your apps you don't use at all to deep sleep, and put your apps you don't use much to sleep. This will help significantly with battery life.

I would also recommend disabling and uninstalling Chrome until they get a handle on why it is killing battery life on the S21 series of phones.

 

[Gayle Lynn]

My guess is Samsung Internet should be the lightest browser. Chrome gas always been heaviest. Beware extensions in both though.

Developer mode: limit background to 0-4 or standard.

An update messed up battery usage and heat. Factory reset fixed it. Clearing cache partition should have but didn't.

I switched from Outlook to Gmail, shame you can't use something else. Samsung Email seems lite but also weak. And Proton Mail us still too much "in development debug mode for relying on.