Google Denies That Google Now Excessively Drains Your Battery
LIKE
TWEET
SHARE
PIN
SHARE
POST
MAIL
MORE
Posted May 2, 2013 at 11:05pm by iClarified
Google has issued a statement to Lifehacker denying that Google Now excessively drains the battery life of iOS devices.
Users have been complaining that Google Now via the Google Search app is killing their battery life. Some have taken to disabling Location Reporting for the app to resolve the issue.
However, Google disagrees with these reports.
Reports that Google Now drains battery life are incorrect. We understand people’s concern about seeing the Location Services icon stay on when they use Google Now. Many apps that keep the icon on actually do drain the phone’s battery because they require very accurate location. (For example a navigation app has to run your GPS all the time to keep you from missing your turn.) Google Now is built very differently: it uses cell towers and wifi hot spots for much lower battery impact.
We extensively tested Google Now on iOS for months and didn’t see reports of significant battery impact — we would encourage you to try it in the Google Search app for a few days and we don’t expect you to see significant impact on your battery. If you are seeing a problem, please do tell us (just tap feedback in the app settings). We take user feedback very seriously.
Have you experienced abnormal battery drain when using the app? Let us know in the comments. You can download Google Search from the App Store for free.
Just disable location services for google and thats it, I disable siri and use google now thru activator an assign the home button, so now it acts like siri, it understand spoken instructions a lot better, but location services was draining my battery too fast
Yes, it did. I disabled it yesterday! Just saw the article. I am iOS user for years and just noticed that my iPhone cannot complete a day without a charge
I was experiencing the same problem, but I found out that GPS was constantly running in background and that, that was the main problem why my battery was draining so fast. So I went to settings and in location services turned off GPS for Google app, and now its everything fine. When I need GPS for Google now I turned it manually on and when dont turned it off. Problem solved.
Yes it drains battery, even the device is standby it runs in background, that's very bad... So uninstalled. Google agrees or not, but its fact & 100% true, device gets heat up & battery drains fast.
Right, let's compare a £239 phone with a £529 one...
How about linking a proper Samsung handset.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6914/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review/4
If you look at user experience components (e.g. battery life, etc) every benchmark is won by iPhone. On the other hand, if you build a phone as big as a toaster, you might get it to be 3 nano seconds faster in a laboratory environment but of course your battery life will be terrible.