Test X ways to extend the battery 🔋 life of your smartphone and other devices

Have you ever been lost in a new city?without navigation or run out of battery at your favoritebands' concert when they were about To Play your song. These are just two of theMany moments you need your phone not tofail you, but your battery begs to differ.What can you do to win this contest?

Well, the first thing you'll probably do is to shut down all the apps that you have.running in the background, it seems likethe logical way to go, but it actuallyonly makes things worse when you forceWhen you quit an app, your phone spends itsprecious juice on closing the app andclearing it from RAM And when you decideto open the app again, it'll spend moreresources for bringing it back to lifewhen you leave one app and start using adifferent one; the first one is stored inRam sits there quietly at the ready.to relaunch in exactly the samecondition, and we'll jump back intoaction without wasting any extra batterytime or dataThe phone has its own memory management.mechanisms, it'll close the apps that youhaven't used for a long time, or the onesthat are using more batteries than theyShould those greedy little pigs you canHelp the system work smoothly and quickly.by not trying to do the job for thephone and letting it decide which app tokeep running in the background.Do you have a bright image from yourlast vacation as wallpaper on your phoneIt's not so obvious, but this phone couldactually be the reason why you're losing.battery faster than ever on many new phoneshave an OLED display when you set a darkWallpaper doesn't have to waste power.on lighting up black pixels, so thelarger the darker areas on the screen.the less battery it eats.You can also turn on dark mode. it canboost the battery on your phone ortablet quite a bit, you can choose toactivate it at sunset or sunrise.automatically every day, by the way, ifIf you turn on dark a la mode, you'll windup with chocolate ice cream on yourphone, you better skip that one.One solution that always helps bothphones and laptops are adjusting thescreen brightness  You can deactivate theautomatic brightness mode to save somejuice  It's brought to you by a lightsensor that spends even more power oncollecting and analyzing data about thesurroundings to pick the right light.level, you can manually dim your screen.brightness to a comfortable level andwaste energy on something you ddon't reallyneed

You can also shorten the auto-lock time.to a minimum, the sooner your screen goesoff when you're not using the phone, theless energy  It's heating the defaultThe timeout is 30 seconds for most phones.but you can bring it down to 15.as fast could be a great energy saver.for youDo you like to charge your phone fromzero to one hundred percent, or maybeeven let it eat some extra juice after.It hits the 100 mark. Well, you aren'tdoing the battery any good like thisExperts say that the best range isbetween 25 and 85 percent if you wantyour battery to last longer and live ahealthier life if you let the lithium ion battery goes down to zero all the time.and then juice it back up. This can wearit out faster than normal.

Another possible solution for Your A hungry battery is a portable charger.They come in all possible shapes and colors.and sizes; you just need to decide how how much power you want from it, there aremodels that can help your phone last until the end of the day, and somestronger ones that will keep you covered.for an entire weekendYou do need to charge your portable battery.before it can feed your phone, but don't overdo It Only charge it when you're about to use it.because the more power you run Through The shorter itis, the smaller it will serve you.More affordable models usually last 200to 300 cycles if you don't use it that much, at least charge it once every three months to keep the battery active And Yes, it's perfectly safe to use your phone hike it's charging on your new external battery

Have you already tried buying a charging phone case in your favor Gadget, it's a perfect option for you if you spend a lot of time away from the outlet, butThen again, don't we all also think it doesn't take up any extra space in your bag.Unlike an external battery, it does Make The phone itself is bulkier, though.If you want a more powerful case, you canYou get the sense that it's going to be bigger and heavier than the other models and of course, when choosing the ideal case, don't fall for a lower price.Quality knockoffs can seriously dadamage you e or its Battery I've heard that those fancy Wireless Chargers can do your battery some harm.too, but it looks like it's not so simple.charging a battery in any way Wireless Or not, does it age it a bit? It can make that the aging process goes faster and reduces battery Life When you drop your phone on a wireless charger's a high chance it won'tbe perfectly in the right spot, even If You do align all the coils in the charger and the smartphone, only about 80percent of the energy will end up in your phone's battery, and that's the best case senario, the rest will turn into heat, and it's definitely not on your battery's best friends List On the bright side, though, the Best Wireless chargers come with a cooling fan to curb the heat, and they're supposed to get better and better in the future, so you don't have to worry about your phone's Safety I'm sure you know that turning On Airplane mode on your phone is the easiest way to save some precious battery, but have you ever tried doing the same with your laptop; it's like turning off the light in the room you'recurrently not using.If you have to finish an important text or presentation and have all the data you need in the document, but you don't really really need to have YouTube Facebook in your favorite chat room on at the same time, do You The updates will only distract you And The battery will run like water On Windows you can simply enable airplane mode in the Home tab Max doesn't have that.function, but you can just turn off Wi-Fi.Bluetooth and location services it's kind of the same.Now, if switching on airplane mode is sogreat turning the phone off completelyshould be even better, right? not reallyIt won't do the trick, especially ifYou're planning to use it again in anhour or so, the hole switches on and off.thing takes too much battery power atAt some point, your phone screen just won'tlight up anymore because while you weretrying to save energy, you've drained thebattery completely

Is your operating system up to date?It's not just a marketing plot thatManufacturers have inventedactually do constantly improve the OS.The latest version will always havepatches and fixes for all sorts ofissues, including battery health.and newer operating systems work better.with newer technologies, most updatesshould download automatically, but if yousee anything new when you check them.manually, just grab it, and your phone willlove itWhen you install a new app, you oftenJust agree to everything because youI can't wait to try it out.charged, so double check if you haveaccepted to receive push notifications.or alerts from different apps that only leaveThe ones you really need, like your work,email, you can just disable theunnecessary ones in your settings.the battery section of your phoneSettings can give you some extra hints.on how to save powerCheck out which of the apps are the biggest energy eaters once you identifyThose bad boys look through the settings.For each of them, you can try disablingTheir background updates some apps.especially news and social media ones.refresh data without you even knowing orasking them to, but now you know.