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I put Touch on one of my old Pixels, and the battery life lasts all of two hours. It's an older phone, and I wasn't getting a full day anymore, but this was absurd.
I'm leery of going through that effort again until I hear reports that Touch doesn't murder battery life.
Would you mind sharing how recently and on what phone model? I had it on a Nexus 5 using version 18.04 and the battery life was indeed awful. I upgraded to a Pixel 3a and then the developers re-based the OS to 20.04, and now it seems to be lasting much, much longer on a charge. I admit I don't use it daily though, since I'm in one of the markets that needs VoLTE. This is just my perception.
Um... I'll have to find it. A Pixel 2 or 3, no later. It was mostly unusable b/c of the battery life, so it's in a drawer somewhere.