Today’s smartphones come with massive batteries; 5,000 mAH, 6,000mAH, or even 7,000mAH. Though they might sound massive on paper, most of them do not last longer than half a day when used rigorously.
When your device starts running out of steam, saving the battery percentage becomes imperative, especially when you are outdoors and unable to charge your phone for an extended period of time. But don’t worry, there are ways to extend your smartphone battery’s life. Following a few tips given below you will be able to reduce the drainage of the battery of your smartphone to a great extent.
1- Turn off wireless services and GPS location
GPS consumes power in the background continuously. While some Apps require location access to help you serve better, keeping it on all the time ends in a speedy loss of battery. You can turn on the GPS when needed and keep it off otherwise. You can simply turn it off by sliding down your notification panel and disabling it. You can follow similar measures to save power on Bluetooth, data, and WiFi service when not in use.
2- Turn on Dark Mode
A majority of today’s smartphones come with a Dark Mode option. However, this feature becomes a game changer when the phone has an OLED panel. This feature will help you preserve the battery. Since OLED panels don’t need a backlight like its IPS panel counterpart, it produces rich blacks by turning off individual pixels. Hence, applying dark mode and the dark theme will minimise the power consumption by screen to light up your phone screen, and thereby save battery power.
3- Turn off Auto Sync feature
Auto-Sync feature collects and updates data from time to time. This is used by several apps like Gmail, Twitter, WhatsApp, and many more. This feature, running in the background, consumes more power, leading to battery drain at a faster rate. You can turn it off by simply going to your phone’s settings > Google Accounts and disabling the Auto-Sync feature for all the apps that you don’t need.
4- Switch off auto screen brightness setting
Many smartphones come with a feature called Auto-Brihtness, in which your Android phone will automatically adjust the brightness level by detecting the light condition, but it eats lots of battery. So, you can turn off the Auto-Brightness. To do this, simply drop down your notification panel and uncheck the auto-brightness feature. Next, you can adjust the level of brightness manually every time you want.
5- Disabling the apps not in use
Many apps continuously run in the background even when you aren’t using them. This will, of course, eat up the battery. To fix this, you can put them to sleep or disable the apps that are not required. Simply go to Settings > select the apps you want to disable or put to sleep, you will find the Disable option at the bottom of your phone’s screen. The battery manager in the settings will help you find out which application is consuming more power.