With the use that we give to the phone currently, it is very likely that at least on some occasions you have come across an application that was devouring the resources of your phone, that is, that it was consuming a lot of battery.
These types of situations usually occur when an application or operating system update arrives, because some problems in the application code could generate this type of problem, so if you are one of those users who likes to test applications on beta version you have probably already encountered such a problem.
If this is your case, or if any of your family or friends tells you that they want to know why the battery in your phone runs out very quickly or some applications make it overheat, there is a very easy way to see what is going.
How to check what each application does?
In the case of Android, we will find that manufacturers usually offer different ways to access application metrics, but no matter what phone you have, there is always a way to see what is happening with the apps on your device.
If the problem is with the battery, the easiest thing is to go to settings> battery> battery usage. Here you can see a metric of the last 7 days and of the applications that have most occupied the device’s stack.
Here it will depend a lot on what we do with the applications to know which one is having an abnormal behavior, but it is easy to notice when an application has problems because its battery consumption does not go according to its use.
For example, if you suddenly notice that WhatsApp is consuming 28% of the battery, but you don’t use WhatsApp as much, then here is a problem with the application. One of the applications that more than once has given me problems is “Google Play Services”, in fact, on one occasion the application consumed 80% of the battery in a matter of half a day, and the problem was that the beta version had problems with some Android phones.
If you suddenly notice an abnormal battery consumption of an application, check in the Play Store when the version you currently have launched, and compare with the detail of use of the week when it started giving you problems, if the dates coincide then it is a problem of the update, and while they fix it you can delete it and download the APK of the version that did not cause you problems.