Google Play Services is sort of like the blast furnace powering many of the apps and functions of your phone. It’s an API package that essentially allows apps on your phone to communicate with each other, as well as with things like your GPS, to give you location-relevant information. It’s very important, in other words, but if it starts draining your battery, then that’s a problem. Google Play Services’ battery drain is, to some extent, a misnomer, because it’s often caused by external apps and functions that use features like location, metrics, Wi-Fi and so on, which are handled by Services. Usage of these features… Read more