I admit that Google changed the setting of Android terminal remotely without permission

"Battery saver" mode was arbitrarily turned on on models equipped with " Android 9 Pie " released in August 2018, such as Google's high-end smartphone " Pixel " " Pixel 2 ", some functions There was a phenomenon that it was restricted. As a misconfiguration of functional tests, Google admits remotely manipulating functions on and off.

is anyone else's power saving mode turning on on though though you have it off?: GooglePixel
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Google admits changing phone settings remotely - BBC News
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A user using Pixel 2 on an overseas bulletin board · Reddit posted "Battery saver was arbitrarily effective as I looked it up because battery reduction is slow." Then Pixel · Pixel 2 users that "My battery saver has been arbitrarily enabled" appeared one after another. In addition to Pixel, it turned out that similar symptoms were found on the terminal where Android 9 Pie was introduced, such as Essenntial Phone.

As users continue to report similar reports, official Google accounts appear in Reddit's thread. The official account "It was an internal experiment to test the battery saver function, but it seems that more users were targeted than it was intended by mistake.As I set the battery saver setting back to the default Please set it as you like, I am sorry for the confusion. "I acknowledged that this riot was triggered by remotely changing the battery saver function.

The problem of battery saver has already been fixed, but this time's case is also an example showing again that "Google can secretly operate the user's terminal remotely". Reddit can also distrust users against Google who switched on and off features in the background without an update notification or warning.

Kate Bevan, a technical commentator for computer magazine " Which? " Revealed that his smartphone was also influenced by Google's mistake and said, "Unless I do not know why Google is doing that, I I do not want applications or OSes that will change what I've decided, which is a matter of transparency and consent. "