I’ll add to this my s23 ultra all of a sudden in the last few days has be drained by chat GPT. Using ridiculous amounts of resources both in the foreground and background. I was just about to sign up for plus but if this is the case I’m not going to be able to do that because it’s going to be unusable on my phone.
+1, I’m using an OnePlus 12 and it’s the same. Even though I revoked background activities the application using massively CPU time. I installed the application 4,5 hours ago and it drained 20 percent of my battery.
Its the month of July and OpenAI isn’t resolving the issue. Facing horrible battery drain on my S24 plus.
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To all Android users experiencing battery drain:
Rejoice! I believe I’ve identified the source of the problem.
It appears that the battery drain issue is not caused by the ChatGPT app itself.
If you are using AdGuard or similar apps, you need to add the ChatGPT app to the exclusions list so that it won’t be filtered. This action should essentially stop the battery drain. Refer to the screenshot for guidance.
Give it a try!
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I don’t have AdGuard installed on my phone and the problem exists. So it’s not a solution.
For me it was. Maybe you have another app conflicting with chatgpt
It’s a temporary solution, tbh, because excluding apps from AdGuard routing makes them invisible to the firewall.
I’m having this same issue as well! I have a Galaxy S24 Ultra and the issue started happening about 3 weeks ago. Not sure if it relates to a software update for the ChatGPT app or my phone, but it is draining the battery rapidly and causing my phone to get very warm. I have to change the battery setting from optimized to restricted to avoid allowing the app to continue to drain battery in the background. But this prevents the app from working as well unfortunately. I do use an ad-blocking DNS service but don’t know any way to exclude this one app. I don’t seen any chatgpt domains being blocked on my DNS log so not sure what causes it. Any tips to fix this issue??
Same here, since last update i left my phone at 78% eent to sleep and woke up that was fully drained, i recharged it, at work, i used ChatGPT for 2 hours approximately and it went down from 100% to 61%… Xiaomi 14 Ultra here. I mention the fact that when im not using it stays an hour two at 100-99% , if I watch YouTube or anything else it barely drains 10-15% in 1-2 hours. It feels like my phone is powering gpts answer not the server haha.
I spent an hour testing to try to figure out what addresses were being blocked by the DNS server that could be related to chatGPT and and it turned out that once I whitelisted browser-intake-datadoghq .com then my issues went away!