Google Pixel owners wake up to a rude surprise. Their phones, once reliable through the night, now greet them with single-digit battery levels. The culprit? A glitch in the April 2026 update that blocks the CPU from deep doze mode. Pixels from the 6 through 10 series suffer most, losing several percentage points every few minutes even idle. Screen time halves for some. Alarms fail. GPS quits mid-commute. Chargers become daily necessities. Google admits the problem. On its Issue Tracker , engineers labeled it Priority 1. ‘Thank you for reporting this issue. We have shared it with our product and engineering teams,’ one posted April 14. Days later: ‘Without a bug report, we can’t pinpoint the specific application causing the problem.’ Users flooded the thread—nearly 600 comments in under 10 days. Reddit megathreads echo the chaos, with April 2026 posts detailing wakelocks from kepler_spi_irq_handler and gnss_ipc suspend aborts. 9to5Google first spotlighted the surge April 21. Drain persists in airplane mode.…