10 Tips to Extend the Life of Your Phone's Battery

You can't use a mobile phone without a fully charged battery: it wouldn't be a phone at all. When protecting the storm of our smartphones, we don't seem to put as much work into it as we should.

Lithium-ion batteries power most mobile devices (including tablets and laptops) in today's world. Lithium-ion batteries have several advantages (such as smaller batteries and lighter, thinner phones due to their better energy density), but their performance degrades over time.

Long-term smartphone users may have noticed that their phone's battery life is decreasing with time, sometimes lasting as little as half a day even when fully charged. The lithium-ion battery in your phone loses charge every time it is charged and discharged.

What can we do to extend the life of our phone's battery? The following are ten things you can do:

1. Aim to prevent your battery from draining down to 0% or 100%

For many people, charging and discharging a battery to its total capacity is the best method to keep it in good condition, or at the very least a healthy one. Calibration of your battery, it's possible, can improve its performance.

A relic of the past, lithium-ion batteries don't perform this way. There's no way to adjust the battery memory because there isn't any. Your lithium-ion battery's lifespan is halved if you discharge it to 100% instead of 60% because of the increased stress on the battery and the consequent reduction in capacity.

Lithium-ion batteries are most vulnerable when fully charged or completely depleted, so assigning them only part is the most effective strategy. Your battery should always be set to roughly 80% and never be allowed to drop below 30%. Aim for a maximum of 90 percent battery life and begin charging your phone as soon as it reaches 20 percent.

2. Always charge your battery to 100 percent before using it again.

Despite the usual practice of putting your phone on charge at night, this can reduce your phone's battery life. It's not just the higher voltage that causes stress on your battery but the heat that builds up over time.

Exposing a battery to extreme heat is one of the fastest ways to limit its lifespan, even if it isn't dangerous to the user.

Keep your phone in a cold or well-ventilated spot overnight so the heat can dissipate more quickly. Please don't put it beneath your pillow, for example.

3. If you can, take your time.

Fast charging is unquestionably a time-saving convenience. Suppose you want your battery to last as long as possible. You should probably only use them in an emergency because they can wear down and damage an older phone's battery.

On the other side, a slower charge is beneficial to your battery. Charge your phone via computer or laptop; this can be beneficial.

4. Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth if you're not using them.

You also need to consider items extending your battery's lifespan. After all, the fewer charge cycles your phone battery experiences, the longer it will last.

Your phone's WiFi and Bluetooth are two of the most popular battery killers since they constantly search for networks and devices to connect to while you're not using them.

It's not a big concern to leave your phone's WiFi on if you're only going from one area with WiFi to another, like going from your house to the office. However, if you're going to be out for an extended period and won't be using your WiFi, you should switch it off.

As an aside, if you have an Android smartphone, you may disable automatic WiFi, which means that even if you've switched off WiFi, your phone will keep scanning for networks.

5. Organize your location-based services 5.

To provide their services, many apps now track your phone's position constantly using a combination of GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and cell tower locations. Keep these apps from using your location services while you're not actively using them to conserve battery life.

Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services on an iPhone and adjust your settings. Settings > Security & Location > Location > Advanced will allow you to prevent WiFi and Bluetooth scanning entirely, or you can disable apps from using location services in the background by checking the box next to "App Permissions" in Settings.

6. Your aide should be allowed to leave.

While voice assistants like Google Assistant and Siri can be pretty helpful, they drain your phone's battery life because they're constantly listening for your orders.

The "Hey Siri" and "OK Google" voice commands should be disabled if you don't use them frequently or don't require them at all.

7. Please don't close your apps; instead, use them to your advantage.

To save battery life, you may be thinking about shutting down as many of your phone's functions as possible. Wait a minute, don't rush!

You aren't genuinely increasing your battery life when you force-quit apps running in the background on your phone. It can worsen the situation.

Apps in the background are automatically throttled by algorithms built into the iOS and Android operating systems. You risk messing up this sophisticated mechanism if you force apps to quit. Additionally, returning to a previously closed program consumes more battery life and resources than starting a new instance of the same app that is already open.

Instead, keep an eye on how often your apps are refreshed in the background. No, I don't. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh on iOS to see what apps you genuinely need to be regularly updated.

Each program can be limited to a certain amount of battery consumption on Android. You may do this by heading to Settings > Apps & Notifications > Advanced > Battery > Background Restrictions, and under that apps tab, go to Advanced > Battery.

8. Reduce the brightness if you can.

We understand that your phone's display is stunning. Screen brightness is, nevertheless, a significant energy drain. If you want to save battery life, set it to the lowest brightness possible while still being able to read it.

9. Intelligent battery modes can help you get the most out of your battery.

Savvy battery savers or low-power modes are now standard on most Android and iOS devices. In particular, these are useful since they automatically reduce energy-draining operations, such as CPU consumption, notifications and mail fetching, and screen brightness.

You can manually use these power-saving modes whenever you wish, even if your phone's battery is running low. As a result, although your phone will continue to work, it will do so with less efficiency.

It's best to avoid utilizing this mode if you're going to be away from your phone for an extended period or want to minimize the amount of time you're distracted by notifications.

10. Make the switch to night mode (if you have an OLED screen)

You can save battery life by switching to Dark Mode when using a newer smartphone, such as a Samsung Galaxy S9 or an iPhone XS.

You may prolong the battery life of your iPhone by 30% by adopting this gloomy style, according to PhoneBuff. Google conducted its investigation and found that the Google Pixel drew 63 percent less energy in Night Mode than other smartphones. In Dark Mode, AppleInsider noticed a 60% reduction in battery use.

Only newer phones with OLED panels are affected by this. This is because, unlike LCD and LED displays, each pixel on an OLED screen is separately lighted. No power is drawn by the OLED screen's black pixels, while darker colors draw less power. The power consumption of LED and LCDs, on the other hand, is the same whether they display a completely black or completely white image.

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