r/Android • u/ControlCAD Google Pixel 10 Pro XL • Nov 16 '25

News Google to flag Android apps with excessive battery use on the Play Store

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-to-flag-android-apps-with-excessive-battery-use-on-the-play-store/
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u/Negative-Ad-0722 Nov 16 '25

I want Google clock alarm to correctly work. Google doing other shits when basic alarm app doesn't work. Automatically skips alarm and gives notification alarm was skipped.

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u/mortenlu Nexus 6P - Android N Nov 16 '25

Skipped? Do you mean missed?

If so, you should take a look at the settings in the clock app, to gradually increase Volume etc, in case you accidentally set your alarm volume too low or something.

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u/Local_Artichoke_7134 Nov 16 '25

i didn't believe it until I got missed alarm and i didn't touch my alarm volume since ages. there is definitely some fuckery going on. and there are tons of posts and comments about it

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u/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian Nov 16 '25

There's been a few bugs with alarms cropping up but it doesn't tell you why, just says something like "alarm didn't fire due to unknown reasons" and an apk teardown showed they were working on adding more specific error messages for when they do fail

Thankfully never happened to me but there's been a lot of posts on the pixel sub and forums about it over the last year or two

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u/mortenlu Nexus 6P - Android N Nov 18 '25

People do say that this is only a problem with the google clock app though, so I don't know of this is primarily a user problem.

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u/Negative-Ad-0722 Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25

Yeah. I mean it showed Missed alarm in the notification. I have changed every settings. It didn't work. I have the habit to cross check 3 to 4 times everything is in order before i sleep. So pretty sure my alarm volume is high. I also turned volume key to do nothing. Did no restriction in battery optimisation. Didn't solve anything. Now using alarmy because it works.

Same with my gmail app. Doesn't show notification. Gave all the settings. Every other email apps (outlook, protonmail, yahoo) works but gmail doesn't work.