【Philippines adult】

Your confusion would be Philippines adulttotally understandable.

A host of Pixel smartphone owners found themselves with small mystery on their hands earlier this week, after they noticed that the battery-saver feature on their phones had randomly engaged — despite the phones having almost full charges. Who, or what, was to blame? A glitch? Perhaps a forgotten setting, toggled on long ago?

Nope. It would, in fact, be Google — remotely changing settings on people's phones in the background with no notification or warning. And oh yeah, Google didn't even mean to.

SEE ALSO: Your Android phone pings Google a lot more than you might think

Android Police noticed the strange occurrence, reporting that a "substantial number of Pixel owners" claimed to be affected by what at first seemed like a bug. Importantly, battery saving mode changes the way your phone works in order to (you guessed it) preserve battery life. This means, among other things, that apps wouldn't refresh unless first opened — not an ideal situation for someone waiting for an important email, for example.

According to a Google statement on r/GooglePixel, this was caused by a small slip up on the company's end.

Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

"[Some] of you may have noticed that battery saver turned on automatically today," read the post. "This was an internal experiment to test battery saving features that was mistakenly rolled out to more users than intended. We have now rolled battery saver settings back to default. Please configure to your liking. Sorry for the confusion."

Which, that clears everything up then, right? Yes and no.

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

While Google being able to push updates to Pixel phones is vital for all kinds of security reasons, the fact that the company could send out an "internal experiment" to consumers' phones without those Pixel owners even being aware it happened does raise a few questions.

Namely, has anything like this happened before? And, if so, has this resulted in any problems for Pixel owners in the past?

We reached out to Google in an attempt to get to the bottom of this, but received no answer as of press time.

While mistakenly changing a phone's settings to enable battery-saving mode at the wrong time, and then remotely quickly fixing the problem, isn't that big of a deal, at the end of the day it does serve as a larger reminder of just how little control we have over our own devices.

And hey, next time your phone does something inexplicable and weird, you now get to wonder if someone in a nondescript Google office building accidentally clicked the wrong mouse button. Fun, right?

---

Featured Video For You

---

We tested Google Lens at a Corgi meetup and it failed

---

Topics Google

• Science
• Deals
• Shopping
• Life
• Digital Culture
• Entertainment
• Social Good
• Tech

• Whale Vomit Episode 5: Startup Monarchy
• The 10 Most Anticipated PC Games of 2016
• Best soundbar deal: Save $300 on the Sonos Arc
• SpaceX's Starlink will provide free satellite internet to families in Texas school district
• Best robot vacuum deal: Save $200 on Eufy X10 Pro Omni robot vacuum
• SpaceX's Starlink satellite launch in pictures
• Time to Unite
• Skype is finally shutting down
• Dyson V8 Plus cordless vacuum: $120 off at Amazon
• Amazon Pet Day: All the best deals

• Disappointed husky has no time for your foolish human Christmas
• What to expect from Mobile World Congress: Samsung, Huawei, and more
• Australia controversially votes for the magpie as the bird of the year
• Dustin Hoffman accused of groping co
• Everything to know about that other Loki in 'Loki'
• How to connect a Bluetooth speaker to your TV
• How 'Kevin Can F
• Kid's impassioned message to bullies finds support all over the internet
• Can you use Bitcoin on Amazon for Prime Day, or nah?
• The chilling reason everyone's sharing that 'New Yorker' story about dating

• 5 Ways to Access a Locked Windows Account
• Amazon Pet Day: All the best deals
• Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee
• Astronomers saw one galaxy impale another. The damage was an eye
• Outdoor speaker deal: Save $20 on the Soundcore Boom 2
• Boeing's new VR simulator immerses astronauts in space training
• Best soundbar deal: Save $300 on the Sonos Arc
• Bargaining For the Common Good
• Is it 'Thunderbolts*' or *The New Avengers'?
• Dyson V8 Plus cordless vacuum: $120 off at Amazon

• Boeing's new VR simulator immerses astronauts in space training
• Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee
• The fat bears are already extremely fat
• Every MCU movie villain ranked, from "Iron Man" to "Thunderbolts*"
• 'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 4: Why Ellie sings 'Take on Me'
• The best day to book your flight, according to Google
• Fyre Festival and Trump’s Language
• Exceptionally rare radio sources detected in the distant universe
• Best IPL deal: Save $80 on Braun IPL Silk·Expert
• Sony launches new flagship XM6 headphones: Order them now