I have a samsung galaxy A14 . I hadn’t updated my apps in a while and I decided to download all 22 of them at once. I had my phone charging and when the app updates were done my phones battery had dropped 5% or more. Now that the apps are done updating it feels like my phone is taking longer to recharge as well but that could just be my imagination. I’ve checked my battery settings on my phone and it seems normal. So I’m not exactly sure what is going on.
Samsung app store may notify you about updates that require your attention but doing so may give Samsung the excuse to install more bloat on your phone. Blockchain, stickers, wallet…and other bloatware were installed recently on my phone. My fault. I was not paying attention and updated all. The cool kids are now saying AI instead of blockchain so expect something from Samsung in the coming weeks. What I did after I saw all the bloat in apps settings was to connect this phone to my Linux computer and used adb to remove all the bloat that was installed during that app store update plus a few apps that came pre-installed with the phone. This is how it’s going to be from now on. You put AI on my phone or other bloatware…i will remove it plus more. Bixby go bye bye 👋
My phone and I want it bloatware free
Man you have talked so much bs
No. But inactive apps won’t update. If you deliberately started all of those apps once to get an update for them again, obviously they’ll start using battery in the background. But updating apps, apart from the amount of CPU it uses to actually update it, doesn’t eat battery afterwards.