A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery
24-08-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com

A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery

An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic tool with no user interface that flags software consuming unusual system resources. Millions of Android owners spent the weekend […]
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