Google Play Services causing severe battery 🔋 drain for some Pixel 2/XL 📱 users after Nov updat

Reported by quite a few users on Google's Pixel support forums as well as Reddit, Google Play Services is currently suspected to be the cause of severe battery drain on Google's latest flagship, as well as a handful of other phones.

One user claims that Play Services took up about 30% of the battery through the day, while other users say that Play Services is the cause of their phone draining 90% of the battery in just a couple of hours.

Clearing Play Services data and disabling Wi-Fi temporarily after a reboot seems to lessen the impact, but there are no guarantees on that.

Google will hopefully fix this problem through a coming Play Services update, and a community manager has already acknowledged the problem saying that "we'd like to dig into this more."