Google has acknowledged that some Google Pixel phones are seeing unusually fast battery drain after installing the March 2026 update, and the company says it is actively working on a fix.
According to reporting cited from Android Authority, a large number of users have complained that battery life dropped sharply after the update landed. Posts shared on Reddit describe phones losing power much faster than before, and several people said that even battery saver mode or manual settings changes did little to improve the situation.
Some users also said the problem did not disappear after moving to the April patch, with a few reports describing battery life that now lasts only about half a day in real use. That has helped turn what first looked like scattered complaints into a broader device-level concern.
Google has already confirmed the issue in its official Issue Tracker and marked it as a P1-priority problem. The tracking report says some affected devices may fail to enter Deep Doze properly after the update, which leaves them more active while idle and can speed up power loss during standby.
Android Authority also ran a poll among Pixel users. In that survey, about 75.9% of respondents said battery consumption became noticeably worse after the recent update, while only 15.2% said battery performance stayed about the same. Polls like that are not perfect measurements, but the results still suggest the issue is affecting a meaningful number of users.
A smaller group of owners said they had not noticed any abnormal battery behavior. Even so, the overall pattern points to something Google needs to resolve quickly, since ongoing endurance problems could damage user trust in the Google Pixel lineup and push some people to consider other phones.
