Android 15 might let you set an 80% charge limit on your Pixel phone

The battery is one of the first things that’s likely to degrade on your smartphone, so if you want to keep your handset for a long time – and not have to keep it tethered to a charger constantly – it’s important to maintain its battery health, and Google might be cooking up a new feature to help with that.

Android Authority has found a new ‘charging optimization’ page, hidden within the latest Android 15 beta. We say hidden, because it’s not actually active and accessible without tinkering with the code.

But the site did just that, and discovered within the page a new option to limit your phone’s charge to 80%, as you can see in the images below. An 80% limit can be handy, as only charging to 80% tends to be better for a battery than going all the way to 100%.

It’s not clear exactly which phones this feature might come to, but we’d expect it will roll out to the Pixel 8 line and other recent Pixel models. It may not come to other Android brands, but some, such as Samsung, already offer such a feature, as does Apple for its iPhones, so it makes sense for Google to catch up and do the same.