TIL my phone battery drain was a rogue app, not old age

My Pixel 5 was dying by 3 PM every day for like 2 weeks, so I was about to buy a $60 replacement battery. Then a friend asked me to check the battery stats page, and I saw Google Photos running in the background for 14 hours straight. Turns out it was stuck trying to sync a giant 4K video, and killing that process gave me back a full day of charge. I changed my backup settings to wifi only and turned off background data for the app, which fixed it completely. Anyone else had a specific app silently murdering their battery, or is it just me?

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