It’s all the time a good suggestion to maintain software program updated throughout your gadgets, as a result of typically, staying on outdated software program can have severe penalties. In case you are one among many Android machine homeowners who’ve been experiencing unexplained battery drain in current days, Google simply revealed that Instagram might need been the wrongdoer.
“Beginning as we speak, Instagram is rolling out an up to date app that ought to repair a battery drain situation on Android gadgets,” a Google neighborhood supervisor defined in a help put up on Android’s assist website on Wednesday. “Please be sure to have the newest model of the Instagram app (construct 382.0.0.49.84) to resolve this situation.”
In case you have Instagram on any of your Android gadgets, head to Google Play to make sure you have put in the newest model of the app. You can too verify your model quantity by urgent and holding the app icon after which tapping App data.
Earlier this month, 9to5Google reported that Pixel machine homeowners had been complaining about their batteries out of the blue draining extra rapidly than typical since proper after the Might 2025 replace. On the time, it wasn’t solely clear what should be blamed for the battery drain points, however now we all know that the Instagram app was responsible for the Pixel battery woes.
As for what was occurring with that Instagram app that brought on the battery on Android gadgets to empty quicker, we do not know, and actually, we’d by no means know.
