Google’s budget-friendly Pixel 4a smartphone just received a software update on January 8. This one actually lowers the battery life.

According to the Pixel update schedule, the Pixel 5 was supposed to be cutoff after October’s update (it is getting November’s), while the Pixel 4a 5G is reaching end of life, possibly this month.

Google Pixel 4a’s painful “update” was due to battery overheating risk Australia made explicit risks of "fire and/or burns" for non-updated 4a models.