5 Tips to Save Cell Phone Battery

Your cell phone battery has different durations depending on the brand, model, years of use, among other factors. However, the common problem is only one: the cell phone battery discharges quickly and you don't know what can be done about it. The idea of ​​this blog is to help you with specific actions that you can do to make your battery last longer.

1. Close unnecessary applications

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This tip is essential to save battery life on phones, but you have to be careful. Applications that you use constantly such as Instagram or WhatsApp are better to keep open in the background since much more energy is used when starting them from scratch all the time. That said, I am referring to applications like Uber, Google Maps that use your real-time location to function. This consumes a lot of battery.

There are also applications such as ALARA, which requires it to always be open to send alerts at any time along with your real-time location. Although it should be said that it does not use your real-time location at all times, so it does not consume your battery permanently. 😄.

Pro tip: When you need to share your location in real time, do it only for as long as necessary. Sharing your location in real time for 8 hours with a person on WhatsApp will consume all your battery in a very short time.

2. Reduce screen brightness

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It's quite simple, the more light, the more energy is consumed. This is why the recommendation is to use the cell phone's brightness at a medium or slightly higher level so as not to overexert your cell phone's battery.

Pro tip: If you have the option to activate automatic brightness so that it adjusts according to the environment you are in, you will be able to further optimize your cell phone's battery.

3. Limit notifications

All the applications you download bring with them notifications that turn on your screen and make your cell phone vibrate. The most likely thing that will happen next is that you pick up your cell phone and use it for a while longer, using up the battery even more, when the notification wasn't even important. This is why the recommendation is to limit notifications to only those that really matter, such as private messages or emails. You are free to filter as you like.

4. Use original chargers

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When you buy chargers that are not the original ones from your cell phone brand, you are risking the battery being overstressed by not exactly matching the voltage and intensity of the current that it must receive for correct charging. This causes the battery to wear out and have a shorter life than the original.

Now, a tip that many will not like…

5. Use your cell phone less time

In Chile, we use social networks for an average of approximately 3 hours a day (20.8% of the time we are awake), ranking fifth worldwide; and in general we use screens on average 8 hours and 36 minutes a day.

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The tips mentioned above will help your cell phone battery work longer and thus ensure that in an emergency you have it available along with your ALARA and you can alert your loved ones quickly and discreetly. And as a last point, reflecting on the use you give to your cell phone can lead you to use it less, and consequently, make your cell phone battery last longer!