How to Save Your Cell Phone Battery in 8 Steps
In 2020, the phone operating systems Android and iOS dominated the mobile phone market. The two giants shared 84.1% and 15.9% of the market share, respectively, according to IDC.
Owners of phones are now wondering how to save their battery to get more out of their phone. To help you get the most out of your phone, the phone experts at Quick To Link explain how to save your phone's battery in 8 easy steps.
Screen
The first thing you’ll want to do to save battery life is optimize your phone’s screen display and brightness settings.
1. Activate Night Mode and automatic brightness
Night Mode or Dark Mode on Android and iOS allows you to save battery life by adjusting the display colour. Removing the white light saves power in addition to reducing eye strain.
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– Go into Settings – Go to Display – Choose Night (or Dark) mode |
– Go to Settings – Go to Display & Brightness – Choose Dark mode |
Couple this feature with the automatic brightness setting or with the power saving mode to enable your phone to manage the light intensity itself according to your environment.
Whether on Android or iOS, simply go to Settings/System or directly from your home screen to enable this feature.
2. Set Sleep Mode
A device's sleep mode defines how long a screen takes before it locks. The idea here is to minimize this standby time to save your battery. By doing this, your phone will take less time to lock.
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– Go to Settings – Go to Display – Choose Sleep or Screen Timeout and set the time |
– Go to Settings – Go to Display & Brightness – Choose Auto-Lock and set the time |
Applications
Once the screen display is optimized, you can play with the applications you have or will install.
3. Limit power draining applications
By reducing the number of applications that consume a lot of data or battery, you will manage to save battery life. The idea is to do a quick audit of the battery life and consumption of installed applications and act accordingly.
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– Go to Settings – Choose Battery and Device Care |
– Go to Settings – Choose Battery |
To maximize battery life, you can also update your applications over your home Wi-Fi network.
4. Close background running applications
The idea here is to identify apps that run in the background even when closed, either for automatic downloads of updates or because they need to sync content.
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– Go to Settings – Select Batter and Device Care – Select Memory – Choose Clean Now |
– Press the main button twice to display the applications in use on the control center – Swipe up on each window to end use |
If this doesn't make a difference or you want to do more, you can always remove the background activity permission from each application manually.
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– Go to Settings – Select Apps – Manage Applications |
– Go to Settings – [Select individual application] – Turn off background application updates |
5. Turn off notifications
Notifications can be addictive, especially if they come from social networks. That's why, to put your mind at ease and conserve your battery, we recommend turning off notifications from applications that you rarely use or that feature ads and “push” notifications.
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– Go to Settings – Notifications – Application Notifications/Select Application – Uncheck and allow/disallow notifications |
– Go to Settings – Notifications - Application Notifications/Select Notifications - Authorize/unauthorize notifications |
Connectivity
Bluetooth, mobile data roaming, location-based service or voice assistants are all tools that make your phone easier to use but consume a lot of battery. Disabling them will therefore extend your battery life.
6. Turn off background mobile data consumption
Whether you are on Android or iOS, mobile data is part of your internet and phone plan subscribed to a telecom service.
To save power and extend your battery life, you can turn them off when you are not using them.
At the same time, you can allow background data use for specific apps to reduce their consumption.
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- Go to Settings - Applications - Manage Applications/Select Application - Select Mobile Data - Restrict data usage |
- Go to Settings - Select Cellular or Data Use - – Uncheck Cellular Data on the applications you no longer want to use data |
7. Disable voice assistants
Voice assistants Siri and Google use a lot of battery power since we never really know when we need them. That's why, even though they are useful, it's best to disable them.
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– Go to Settings – Accessibility – Voice Access – Deactivate Voice Access |
– Go to Settings – Siri & Search – Deactivate Siri |
Battery
Even if the objective of this
article is to propose solutions to save your battery, there is a surprising
action, much more effective than the power saving mode, to save it.
8. Recharge the battery regularly
The batteries in our phones today are made from lithium. In other words, unlike nickel, it is now not recommended to wait for the battery to run down before recharging it.
That's why, even if it doesn't seem logical, you must recharge your battery regularly to conserve the battery life over time.
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There are plenty of actions and tricks to optimize your battery life. In addition to focusing on your display or applications, you can also manage your cellular data distribution.
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