What’s going on?
Instead of a normal 7 or 8 hours of screen time (or more), many Pixel 8 and 8 Pro units are barely capable of lasting 4 or 5 hours between charges when continuously using mobile data, which is clearly ridiculously low for what are ultimately two high-end smartphones available at high-end (ish) prices.
What can you do?
Sadly, not much, at least based on what we know at the time of this writing. While some folks claim they can get significantly better battery endurance numbers by forcing their Pixel 8 or 8 Pro to stay on a 4G LTE signal and avoid 5G connections, others say that doesn’t solve anything, and even if it does, not everyone wants to settle for LTE speeds in 2023.
The Pixel 8 and Pixel 7 (pictured here together) come with the exact same modem under the hood.
Given that everyone suspects the culprit to be a hardware component… that’s caused similar problems before, delivering a software fix might prove to be a mission worthy of a new Tom Cruise movie.
We have no idea what Big G was thinking there, but if you’ve recently purchased a Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro and you’re starting to experience unusual battery drain when connected to a 4G LTE or 5G network, you might want to check if you can still return your phone in exchange for a refund. That’s the only real “solution” 100 percent guaranteed to work.
