Overview
- The “excessive partial wake locks” metric is now generally available in Android Vitals as a core quality signal visible to developers in Play Console.
- A user session is labeled excessive when an app holds more than two cumulative hours of non‑exempt partial wake locks within a 24‑hour period, with exemptions for system‑held tasks like audio playback or user‑initiated transfers.
- An app crosses the bad‑behavior threshold if at least 5% of user sessions over the past 28 days are excessive, triggering Android Vitals alerts and diagnostics that include a wake‑lock names table with P90/P99 durations.
- Starting March 1, 2026, titles that fail the threshold may be removed from prominent discovery surfaces and, in some cases, receive a red store‑listing warning that the app may cause excessive battery drain.
- Google co‑developed and refined the metric with Samsung, adding it to Play’s technical quality bars alongside crash and ANR rates and existing wearable battery usage checks.