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Is Copilot draining
Is Copilot draining
your battery?
Not really — it's fairly well-behaved in the background. Here's what 3 anonymous Battery Snitch devices reveal about Copilot.
B
33/100
Drain Score
Grade B — mild background drain
Blends typical (median) and worst-case (p90) background runtime.
34 min
<1%
3
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FAQ
Copilot & your battery
Does Copilot drain your battery?
Not really — it's fairly well-behaved in the background. Across 3 anonymous reports, Copilot runs in the background for a median of 4 min per day, earning a mild Drain Score of 33/100 (grade B).
How much battery does Copilot use in the background?
Typically it runs for about 4 min a day in the background — that's <1% of an entire day. On the heaviest devices it kept running for up to 34 min (90th percentile).
How can I stop Copilot from draining my battery?
Restrict its background activity in Settings → Apps → Copilot → Battery → "Restricted", revoke unused permissions, and disable background data if you don't need live updates. Battery Snitch finds the exact apps draining your phone and shows you what to change.
Where does this Copilot battery data come from?
It's crowdsourced from 3 real, anonymous Android devices running Battery Snitch. We rank by the median so a single outlier device can't skew the result — the more reports an app has, the more reliable its grade.
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