The Google Pixel 4a and 4a 5G were both announced in 2020, but not at the same time. The Pixel 4a arrived in August, while the Pixel 4a 5G dropped a month later than that.

Google's update to affected Pixel 4a devices drastically reduced their charging potential, essentially by half. One Ars staffer saw their Pixel 4a battery life drop to less than two hours on a ...

The mysterious battery performance update that Google rolled out for the Pixel 4A in January was released to “mitigate the risk of overheating,” according to the Australian Competition and ...

A few months after it first started rolling out, Google is now pushing the Pixel 4a battery update on users who had previously avoided it. The story of the Pixel 4a’s battery reduction update is ...

When Google said that the new Pixel 4a update would "reduce your battery’s runtime and charging performance," it was not kidding. Indeed, the update basically destroyed the battery.

Google’s been dealing with the fallout of bad batteries on the Pixel 4a and Pixel 6a. So far, that’s involved updates that limit charging capacity after a certain number of cycles.

Google Pixel was the first phone in the Pixel line, launching in October 2016. At the time, this was one of the first smartphones to take advantage of USB-C, with the device also packing in a 12.3 ...

The Google Pixel 4a battery update does even more than we thought, reducing capacity by around 44% and halving the maximum charging speed on affected devices. The update also disables features ...

According to code analysts who examined the update, Pixel 4a batteries fall into two categories: ATL and LSN. Google imposed a charging capacity cap on LSN batteries to mitigate overheating risks.