What is a Wakelock on my phone?

If you have a lot more awake time than screen on, something might be keeping your phone from sleeping . This is called a wakelock, and it’s the number one enemy of your battery life. When an app or service needs to run a process, it can wake the device with an alarm.

To release the wake lock, call wakelock. release() . This releases your claim to the CPU . It’s important to release a wake lock as soon as your app is finished using it to avoid draining the battery.30 Ara 2021

Amplify let me restrict some annoying wakelocks on my phone. For those of you not too familiar, a wakelock is a process which wakes your phone when the screen is off . This is normally pretty good, as it allows you to receive texts, listen to music, and so on.

Wakelocks are power-managing software mechanisms , which make sure that your Android device doesn’t go into deep sleep (which is the state that you should strive for), because a given app needs to use your system resources.