Something is running in the background of One UI 6. Like all of you, my battery life has dropped considerably. From around 30 hours to less than 8. The phone is glitchy/laggy too, e.g. transitions and video stutter, and sometimes, when typing, nothing happens for 2 to 3 seconds, then all of a sudden all the text appears. Also, apps appear to hang, or won't open when their icon is clicked, but then burst back into life. The battery, on Samsung's own QI Charger used to charge in 2.5 hours. Now, after 8+ hours, it is only getting to about 80%. I have also noticed that even when not used, the phone is always warm. This was not the case before One UI 6. It is clear that Samsung have introduced an update that runs some processes in the background, that is consuming resource, hence the battery drain and laggy stuttering performance, but nobody (apart from Samsung) knows what that process is and if there is a way to disable it. My Samsung is provided by my company. We have around 2,500 company mobiles phones, about half of which are Samsung. Our mobile team have issued a notice NOT to upgrade any Samsung devices to One UI 6.0. I wish they had sent this before I updated, as Samsung have ruined this phone for me and have lost my trust. Apple did something similar to me in the past (you may remember that Apple got fined in a number of countries for deliberately degrading older devices to force their customers to buy new devices), and as a result, after over 10 year of my loyalty to Apple iPhone and iPads, I switched to Samsung. Now I am considering moving us away from Samsung as I no longer trust them not to screw up their user experience, but I don't trust Apple either, so I will have to look elsewhere. This is totally unacceptable, Samsung. Imagine taking your 3 year old car in for a service, but when you get it back, it keeps starting and stopping, it takes you a whole morning to fill the fuel tank, and due to power drain, the car won't start a few hours after you park it. I find it hard to believe someone with the level of R&D of Samsung did not know about this issue when they released One UI 6.0. I strongly suspect THAT is the reason that they are not responding to this thread (and all the others) complaining about the update. The latest phones seem less badly affected, if at all (my Daughter's brand new Samsung phone is fine). Have Samsung "done an Apple"? I.E. degraded users phones and quietly keeping their heads down in the hope that we all throw away the perfectly good devices THEY ruined and buy new Samsung devices? I really hope not, as I thought Samsung were better than that. However, one of my tech team tells me that Samsung have been prosecuted for degrading printers with upgrades. Maybe they are quietly trying the same trick with mobile devices.....
