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Each tool had their own battery, it discharged so fast and degraded even faster, and forget buying new batteries because the manufacturer decided to change the design again and either youβre stuck with a drill that only works for five minutes or buy a new one.
Now batteries last an eternity, and because each brand has their own ecosystem, as long as you buy tools from the same brand you can use the batteries you already have. And also the brands has no incentive to change the design and break the compatibility of the batteries, it would alienate the costumers who spent a lot of money on the tools and would go for another ecosystem.
Remember when batteries had 'memory' and would charge dramatically less over time?
Usually that's less to do with the battery and more to do with all of the apps on the phone. Try factory resetting or running in safemode and see how long the battery lasts in comparison
On android its actually weirdly difficult to tell what apps are or are not causing battery drain, especially on Android 8 and newer (android 7.11 had the best battery usage graph of any android version, it would even show all of the "wake time" in comparison to screen time so it was very easy to tell if it was doing stuff in the background a lot) My understanding is that if the apps are going through the Google Play Services APIs to do stuff it won't show up on your battery usage graphs.
It also doesn't help that the square button just shows you the "recent apps screen" where it shows apps which you've used recently in chronological order and may or may not have a state saved in memory/swap and may or may not currently be running in the background.
So basically, Android annoyingly just does stuff and you have to trust it. And if you're getting extra battery drain, seriously try Safemode and see if it drains noticeably slower in Safemode. Or factory reset and be slow about reinstalling apps to see if you notice a change when one gets installed
I'm really not aware of any way to see what is or isn't actually running on your phone at any given moment. It sucks because it really does send you on a wild goose chase and leads to a lot of unnecessary ewaste when people replace their phones not knowing they just need to get rid of some apps to sort their battery life