8 Tips on How to Extend Your Phone's Battery Life

The biggest weakness of today's smartphones is their battery life. Battery capacity has not grown in a long time, but phones are ever larger, more powerful, and filled with features. Already for many it's a problem to survive the day without a charger. So how can you easily extend the battery life of your phone? We have 8 practical tips for you and 2 bonus tips for the owners of TOP smartphone models.

1. Turn off the features you're not using

Technology such as Bluetooth, NFC, location tracking (GPS), data connection, and above all Wi-Fi, have a great impact on battery life and are simply not needed most of the time. If you are not using them, turn them off. Usually, it can be done quickly and easily from the top notification bar.

2. Adjusting the display brightness by lowering it will prolong the battery life

Customise the brightness of the display; it is often useless to keep it at its highest. Large screen sizes takes a large part in the power consumtion of today's smartphones. Your eyes will appreciate the lower brightness too. Even though at first glance it seems you can solve this problem using the automatic brightness control function, beware of it. In some models, the display may be unnecessarily bright even in this mode, and it will not be possible to extend the battery life.

3. Tune up synchronisation and background processes

You can improve your battery life by carefully managing syncronisation and background processes. Hand on heart, your phone does not have to keep losing energy by constantly checking and updating. There is no need to follow a lot of information live. It is therefore good to adjust the synchronisation intervals in the settings of individual applications and accounts, so that the phone uses the network as little as possible.

iAdvanced optimisation tip: Some apps, such as the free Greenify for Android, can put open applications to sleep and make sure they do not ask for access to the Internet.

4. Leave some applications running to improve battery life

At first glance, this is a nonsensical step that can actually save valuable battery percentage, especially for iOS smartphone users. Opening a closed application again is more challenging for smartphones than restoring an application frozen in the background. You use applications several times a day, so it's not always neccessary to shut them off completely.

5. Install more economical applications that save your phone's battery

In the battery setting, you can see how much battery power a function or an application consumes. While iOS only shows apps, Android shows the share of hardware and other features. For both platforms, there is a number of programs that pull out detailed consumption statistics. You can easily tune your phone to prolonged battery life according to the statistics.

The official Facebook app and other social networks are among those that consume the most battery power. Often, they have more economical versions; you can access them through a browser or another account management application. In any case, do not forget to update your apps, new versions may be more power-effective.

6. Erase the cache, it is a battery life killer

Once in a while, it is beneficial to restart the phone and clear the cache. There is accumulated information that may already be useless. Very frequent clearing can slow your smartphone down, because it has to re-create the cache. We recommend an interval of approximately 1 time every 3 months.

iAdvanced User Tip: There are multiple types of caches. One of them is the so-called Dalvik cache, which is a lower-level standard system cache. It can be cleared from recovery, a simple tool for more advanced system management, usually accessible when the device is turned off by pressing the power button and the volume button. Occasional clearing this can speed up the phone's responses and save battery.

7. Minimise not only animations

Different animations have a negative effect on battery consumption, whether it's the phone's graphical environment or a fancy live wallpaper. With Android, you can reduce the length of animations or turn them off completely in the developer settings. This will increase not only the battery life, but also the speed and responsiveness of older smartphones.

8. Fast power bank over gold

The simplest option is, of course, buying a power bank, and you do not have to worry about the battery life of your phone. In this case, we recommend choosing models that are capable of charging with a current of 2A. The cheaper power banks with 1A output work well, but charge significantly slower.

Bonus tips on how to extend your phone's battery life:

Longer battery life of Samsung Galaxy S8 and similar phones

Choose darker themes for user environment applications or wallpapers. AMOLED displays, widely used in Samsung mobile phones, use significantly less power when displaying black than white. Unfortunately, this ability to increase your phone's battery life does not affect most other phones due to the different operating principle of LCD displays.

You can easily improve the battery life of your iPhone too!

Owners of iPhones, even older versions, can look forward to a good choice of cases with an integrated battery. The phone case protects and prolongs the battery life, and often adds an extra feature, such as memory. For owners of other brands, the choice and availability of such cases is significantly worse.

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