Adaptive Battery

Android has worked to improve battery life with each release of its operating system. That shouldn’t be surprising, since surveys of smartphone users show that battery life is a top priority.



Today, battery power is spent keeping apps up-to-date in the background so that they’re fresh when users open them next. But nobody uses all the apps on their phone with the same frequency, so in many cases that battery use might not be necessary.

To help tackle this, we’ve partnered with the Android team to develop a feature called Adaptive Battery that uses a deep convolutional neural net to predict which apps you’ll use in the next few hours and which you probably won’t use until later.

Using that knowledge, Android adapts to your usage patterns so that it only spends battery power on the apps you’ll need. The initial results have been very promising, and we’ve seen a significant reduction in background activity in our internal testing.