How to enhance Smartphone Battery Life
7 Ways to Improve Your Phone’s Battery Life (Android & iPhone)
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I think we can all agree that one of the
worst feelings is looking your phone's
battery percentage and realizing it's
either almost dead or when you're out
and about seeing that it's not going to
make it through whatever activity you're
doing and you're gonna have to just
restrict your phone usage it sucks but
there are some things you can do to
improve your phone's battery life on a
day to day basis so that's what we're
gonna go over now there's no magic pill
to magically double your phone battery
life for free or anything like that
unfortunately but there are a set of
best practices some of which you
probably already know and when you
combine these all together then they can
make a big difference so in this video
we're going to go over seven different
things that will improve your phone's
battery life so how long it will last on
a given charge and then afterwards we
can go over a couple things to improve
your phone batteries longevity so how
well it can hold a charge over time and
charge to its maximum capacity that it
can as if it was brand new so to start
off with how to improve your battery
life a couple things you can do that are
really obvious I'm just gonna combine
these into one because they're so
obvious and one of them is to lower the
screen brightness obviously your screen
uses up a ton of battery so if you lower
the brightness it's gonna last longer
and the other thing is using the low
power mode battery saving mode on
Android and iOS obviously that's gonna
reduce background usage and improve
battery life so I'm sure you know those
let's move on now next up number two
this one is way more relevant now
because so many phones use OLED these
days and that is if your phone has an
OLED screen then use dark mode theme for
either iOS or Android that both have
dark modes now and to understand why
this is you have to understand the
difference between an LCD screen and an
OLED screen so with an LCD screen it
typically has an LED backlight and the
brightness of the screen that you set
will determine how bright that backlight
is but what actually determines the
colors on the screen whether it's white
black blue green red or whatever has to
do with some crystals in the display
that switch on and off but that
backlight stays constant across the
entire screen so even if something on
the screen is black then the backlight
behind those black pixels is still on so
if you have an LCD screen even if the
whole screen is
black then the backlight is still on so
you're still using as much battery as if
the whole screen was white
now with OLED this is very different
where each individual pixel lights
itself so if you have a completely black
screen that just means that all the
pixels are off if you have a completely
white screen that means that all the
pixels are on and it is made up of sub
pixels red green blue so that means if
it's white
technically then all three sub pixels
are on but you get the idea basically
this means that if you have dark parts
of the screen and white parts of the
screen then the dark parts of the screen
are just gonna have the pixels off so an
example theoretically this is a very
rough example it's not going to be exact
but say you had an OLED screen where
half the image was black and half of it
was white that theoretically would use
half the power as an LCD screen no
matter what the colors on the LCD screen
are but the takeaway of this is if
you're using dark mode on your phone
then it's going to have way more dark
pixels more often which means that much
more often it's going to be using less
battery than it would if it was light
mode so if you switch to a dark mode on
your phone you might notice a big
difference and also a lot of apps these
days individually have dark modes built
in so you can try enabling it on those
as well so try it out you'll probably
see a difference all right so moving on
the next thing you can do is if you have
the ability to connect to a Wi-Fi access
point instead of just using cellular
data do that because using Wi-Fi for
data use a significantly less power than
the cellular radios for a lot of reasons
including having to broadcast shorter
distances from the Wi-Fi access point
then some Tower really far away because
the Wi-Fi access point is going to be
producing a stronger signal and a lot of
reasons you probably have experienced
this yourself in any case so if you are
at home or you're at a friend's house
ask them for the Wi-Fi password
obviously I would not usually recommend
using public Wi-Fi hotspots unless it's
secure but if you are somewhere that has
a secure Wi-Fi hotspot then I would
recommend just using Wi-Fi if you can
now that being said the next point is if
you are out somewhere and you don't have
any Wi-Fi available and you're just
gonna use cellular and you know that
then turn off the Wi-Fi antenna using
the quick settings both
Android and iOS have this option because
having that Wi-Fi radio on is obviously
going to be using more power than if it
was off so if you know that you're not
going to be connecting at any Wi-Fi just
turn it off until you get somewhere
where you will be using Wi-Fi of course
just don't forget to turn it back on
when you do get home or whatever the
next thing you do will take a little bit
of Investigation and that is to figure
out which apps are actually using the
most battery like in the background for
example and both Android and iOS have
the ability to do this but if you go
into the settings usually the battery
settings you'll be able to see a list of
all the apps that have used whatever
percentage of battery since the last
charging cycle you did so you can look
through this and judge for yourself
which apps you think have been using
more battery than they should so if
you've been using YouTube and watching
videos all day and you see it has been
using those battery then that makes
sense but if you see Instagram on there
or Facebook is another bad one and you
have not been using those apps then you
can say wait a minute those have been
doing stuff in the background obviously
I don't want those using energy and you
can either go into the settings to
restrict background usage you know
disable notifications or just completely
uninstall them but again there's not
really any hard or fast rule for
determining what battery percentage is
too much you just kind of have to go
from experience for what your phone
tends to use up for which app because
obviously something like YouTube where
it's doing video encoding is going to
use up a lot more than your email
speaking of emails though the next thing
you can do is go into your settings and
change how often your phone checks for
new emails or if it checks at all so in
iOS for example in the passwords and
account settings you can choose between
push or fetch for all sorts of different
accounts so for example push is
basically like it will be constantly
checking for new updates from whatever
accounts you're using and when it
updates it and receives a new email
it'll either notify you or update the
email in your account whereas if it's
fetch it will use a schedule which is
also in the settings at least on iOS and
so every 15 minutes or whatever it will
go out and
fetch the emails only on that schedule
or you can set it to manual where only
when you go into the emails app and
refresh it will it check and that's
usually what I do I don't like getting
email notifications I just want to get
it when I go into the app I don't need
notifications like I would for a text
message so you could just set it for
that and or any other accounts and also
most apps also have the ability to
select whether you want push
notifications or not for that particular
app in the settings so if you do notice
an app keep sending notifications and it
happens to be using a lot of battery or
whatever then you can disable it or even
if you notice an app using a lot of
background energy and even if it's not
getting a lot of notifications well
might still be checking for them so you
can try to disable push notifications
for that and see if that helps at all
all right now finally number seven is
possibly the most effective thing you
can do to improve your phone's battery
life depending on how old your phone is
and that is to replace the battery yes
it's not free so you might not like that
but if you have a very old phone chances
are the battery has degraded over time
like all batteries do so you can
actually check this in your iOS settings
I don't believe Android has a built-in
way to do this in any way but on iOS you
can actually check the battery health
and if it's below like 85% maybe even
90% or so then that shows you basically
how much reduced maximum charge your
phone has since it was new so if your
phone if it's Android and it's just
really old or if it's an iPhone and you
look and see the battery health is
really low and you just know it doesn't
hold a charge very well then probably
the best thing you can do is to replace
the battery now with iPhone it does cost
a little bit of money so it's going to
be either $50 or $70 to replace it at
the Apple store they'll do it for you
and for Android it's really gonna depend
on your phone's manufacturer I know for
Samsung which is probably the most
popular you can actually go to some
stores I think even like Best Buy is an
authorized repair shop for samsung
phones some of them at least which can
do battery repairs so I would just go on
Google and search your phone
manufacturer battery replacement
authorized for pair something like that
or even really any phone repair shop can
probably do a battery of replacement and
probably will actually be
or I would suspect for Android phones
than on iPhone but if you do notice that
your phone is not holding a charge as
well as it used to then you could
probably see a huge difference in
battery performance after you replace it
now like I mentioned all lithium
batteries that are in phones are going
to degrade over time there's no way to
avoid that completely but there are a
couple things you can do to improve the
longevity of them over time so one of
these things is to avoid fast charging
if you don't need to use it so if you're
charging your phone every night then
just use a slow charger or wireless
charging or something that charges a
little bit slower where you don't need
it to be charging immediately after you
fall asleep obviously because fast
charging is going to be putting a little
bit of extra stress on that battery
because it's going to force the chemical
reactions to happen faster it might
degrade the battery significantly faster
if you use it all the time
whereas if you just use regular or slow
charging then that will help it
obviously I would not worry about using
fast charging if like you really do need
to charge your phone up before going
somewhere by all means use the fast
charger it's not going to really make a
difference if you use it even regularly
just as long as you're not doing it all
the time
another thing you can do at least on
iphone is to try out the new optimized
charging feature I believe this is still
in beta on iOS but basically what this
does is it will learn how your charging
habits are especially at night and when
you wake up and it will attempt to
basically charge your phone up to like
80% and then hold it there
and then continue charging the rest of
the 20% so that whenever you wake up
again normally it'll be at a hundred
percent so basically it makes it so over
the life of the phone it spends less
time at 100% charge and maybe slightly
more time at eighty percent and that's
because when phones are at a hundred
percent all the time it might degrade a
little bit faster so it could make a
slight difference if you have your phone
for a very long time but this might not
work or be even worth it if you have a
unsteady sleep schedule where you wake
up a couple hours earlier or later
depending on the day or whatever then it
might not know when to stop or start
charging so it might not even do it but
that's going to be up to your
experience so hopefully this was helpful
if you use Android and you want to keep
watching the next video I'd recommend is
10 tips to make your Android phone
faster so I definitely recommend that
I'll put that link right here you can
just click on so thanks so much for
watching guys and I'll see you in the
next video
