With extensive usage, your smartphone batteries begin to wane. To keep them healthy, there are certain practices you can engage in. Performing these simple acts for a long, consistent period of time will keep your batteries healthy and help them retain their efficiency for a long time.
Keep your battery from reaching 0% or 100% often
Calibrating the battery throughout its cycle does not help it last longer. This misconception continued from lead acid batteries that were used before lithium-ion. Now, with the advent of advanced technologies in batteries, discharging your battery fully at 100% compared to 60% can halve the lifespan. Try to aim for a maximum of 90% and charge your phone before it hits 20%.
Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth if you’re not using them
One common drain on your battery life is the usage of features like WiFi and Bluetooth. While you shouldn’t worry about battery life when you are using these features, shutting them off when you’re not can do wonders for your battery life. If you have an Android phone, you can turn on the feature where WiFi shuts down automatically if there are no known networks in range.
Don’t close your apps, manage them
Closing apps after using them (or removing their processes from the background) can actually consume more battery life because it takes even more power to restart them once they’re closed. Hence, if you think that you’re using an app frequently throughout the day, don’t bother closing them to save battery.
Keep brightness down
Brightness can be incredibly tasking on your battery because the screen is the primary consumer of battery life at all times. Keeping brightness lowered will conserve energy and make sure you have more usage out of your phone if you’re commuting or forgot to bring your charger with you.
