Your phone’s battery life depends on a variety of factors. From applications that consume power quickly, to poor signals which sap power quickly.
Lithium-ion batteries perform best when they remain between 50-80% charged; fully discharging can reduce their lifespan significantly, so try these simple tips to prolong its life in your smartphone battery.
1. Turn off unnecessary features
There are various things you can do to increase the battery life of your smartphone, from disabling background activities or dimming down your display until it can barely be seen to uninstalling certain applications, to increasing its endurance. By making smart choices when it comes to battery usage, you can extend its lifespan considerably and extend its use.
Even with phones only four or five years old, charging them overnight may prove challenging. But that doesn’t have to be the case! With these tips in hand, your phone’s battery won’t let you down!
Simple device settings and smart charging habits can help your smartphone’s lithium-ion battery last longer. By following these guidelines, they could prevent that all-too-familiar red warning light at the bottom of the screen when your charge becomes low.
2. Reduce screen brightness
Your phone’s screen is one of the primary drains on battery power. Lowering its brightness will extend battery life significantly when used during daylight hours or less frequently used periods, as well as reduce charging cycles that the phone may go through.
Modern phones typically employ light sensors to automatically adjust screen brightness depending on ambient lighting, though you can manually lower its level if you prefer. OLED screens provide additional opportunities, since black pixels consume less energy than their counterparts.
3. Turn off location services
Some apps rely on your location data in the background, which can drain your battery quickly. To save power by switching off location services.
Your device’s Settings, Privacy tab can help. Here you can turn off “Use Location for All Apps”, as well as remove specific permission for some apps on the Location page by selecting each individual app and choosing from among Allow all the time, Ask every time, Deny all time or Deny or Ask when needed options.
By applying these tips, you can significantly extend the battery life of your smartphone. Also be sure to update its operating system regularly; doing so can reduce unnecessary battery consumption as well as prevent other software issues which might cause a decrease in performance.
4. Disable background refresh
Experienced smartphone users know it can be disheartening to see that low battery icon appear just when they need their device most, but there’s good news: you have options.
With either Low Power Mode or Data Saver installed on your smartphone, you can easily stop applications from updating in the background and prolong battery life while also helping prevent you from going beyond your data plan limits.
5. Turn off notifications
Battery drain can quickly occur with constant video streaming, playing games and notifications on your smartphone, all which use up precious juice over time. By shutting off apps that do not need to be running all the time, battery life could potentially extend significantly longer than previously anticipated.
Most smartphones feature a feature to put unused apps to sleep; you can find this setting either within the Settings app on a Samsung phone or Battery and Device Care Settings on Pixel devices.
If you want to extend the battery life of your phone even further, turn on Super Battery Mode in your Battery settings. It temporarily closes apps and restricts functions that use up most of the power while still allowing calls, messages and network connectivity – experiment with various times until you find what works for you!