How To Improve Battery Life On Your Smartphone

0:00 Introduction To Improve Battery Life
0:23 Schedule Power On & Off
0:54 Turn Off Things That You're Not Using
1:16 Control Auto Start Applications
1:35 Turn Off Keyboard Vibration
1:55 Dark Mode
2:42 Improve Your Battery's Life

These days, most smartphone and tablet batteries are lithium ion or lithium polymer, and that's convenient because it means anytime is a good time to charge your battery. Lithium-ion mobile batteries are most often nonremovable, so you want to baby the one you have and maintain it properly. With this type of battery, you can charge it anytime – you don't need to let it completely drain to charge it back up to 100 percent. Here are some strategies you can use to conserve energy as you go about your day, without having to tote around an extended-life battery.

Take Control of Your Apps
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Developers put a lot of work into making sure their apps run as efficiently as possible, but many will continue to run in the background even when you aren't using them. This will, of course, eat up data and battery life over time. You can put unused apps to sleep under the App Power Management option in the device care section of your phone.

Go a step further and set specific apps to sleep in order to prevent them from using up too much power when not in use. Keep in mind that sleeping and deep sleeping apps will not receive updates unless they are in use, so you may need to update manually.

Use Airplane Mode :
Airplane Mode shuts down all radio signals to and from your device, halting the flow of email, messages, phone calls and Bluetooth connections. Sure, it's a bit uncomfortable to be completely out of the online loop, but that will conserve your battery, especially if you are running low in a place where you can't easily plug in.

Silence Your Phone:
A phone constantly beeping and buzzing with notifications is annoying and a battery drain, so knock it off. Your phone has to trigger an internal motor to buzz, which-you guessed it-uses energy. Go into the sounds and vibration settings and turn vibration intensity down. Here, you can also disable haptic feedback so it doesn't vibrate when you type or touch the screen.

Pulling down your Android quick settings tile lets you enable Airplane Mode with a tap. If you want to stop short of that drastic step, try turning off Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NFC if you are not using them. On an iPhone, the on-off toggle is the first item in the settings pane. However, if you're wearing an Apple Watch or one of a number of Android-compatible watches, you'll need Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for certain watch features.

Try Dark Mode With the Right Screen :
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Dark mode is nice on the eyes, but it doesn't really do anything for your battery unless your device has an OLED or AMOLED display. Most older phones use LCD screens, but flagship phones from Samsung, OnePlus, and Google have transitioned to using this newer display technology.

If you have a phone with an OLED or AMOLED display, it means the phone actually turns off the pixels that are displaying black, so you're saving some battery when all those bright white panels have now gone dark. According to iFixit, you could be saving as much as an hour of battery life by switching on dark mode.

You can turn on dark mode in Android Pie or Android 10 from its quick settings icon in the phone's pulldown shade or find it in the display settings on the backend. Don't stop here, though, because there are plenty of apps that have their own dark mode settings.

Rethink Wallpaper and Widgets :
Stay away from moving wallpaper, because it takes energy for your display to animate it. It's also a good idea to limit yourself to a background with fewer colors in it, since the display will eat up more energy if it needs to render a lot of different colors. Again, if you have an OLED screen, black is better.

While widgets are tempting and convenient, they are essentially an active program usable right from your home screen, so the phone uses energy keeping the feature running. Just say no to these little guys if battery life is a problem.

Buy a Portable Battery or Case :
If you want more battery life but don't want to do anything differently, that's fine. There are many fine power banks that will work with any phone. You can also find a battery case that fits your specific device. Just remember to pack them before you head out the door.

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