Android 12 update could be bad news for your Google phone battery life
READ MORE This isn't the case on LCD as the backlight still has to be on (a little) or you wouldn't be able to see anything on-screen. Switching the Dark Mode on Android 12 from pitch-black tones to dar blue means OLED displays will need to keep their pixels illuminated – thus draining the battery. We'll have to wait and see whether this Dark Mode change ends up impacting other Android handsets as well, but it could end up being quite a controversial one. Something similar happened last year when WhatsApp released its long-awaited Dark Mode, but there was one noticeable difference between t...