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Smartphone batteries have gotten a lot bigger in the last few years, but be it Lithion-ion or Silicon-Carbon ones, their maximum capacity wears down over time. And while some modern smartphones claim to feature battery protection technologies, there is a lot more you can do to keep your battery healthy. Here are 5 tips you can follow everyday to keep your smartphone battery in a good condition.
Many of us often head over to your phone’s recent apps screen to remove some apps from memory to prevent them from running in the background and consuming power. However, most modern Android and iOS devices now have good memory management and automatically freeze a background app or put them in deep sleep.
This means if you remove an app from the background and open it again, the system will consume power compared to if you left it in the background since it will have to relaunch the whole app from storage. Most of the time, not clearing apps from the recent apps screen can actually help you save battery and lessen the strain you put on it.
A simple yet effective way to keep your smartphone battery in good shape is by not charging your device when you are gaming or doing some heavy tasks.
For any electronic component, especially batteries, heat is the biggest cause of wear and tear. Since the charging process already warms the phone, if you do some intensive tasks, your phone will heat up a lot faster and your battery may degrade quicker than normal.
Unlike normal background apps, these apps always keep running behind the scene, even if you clear them from the memory. If you happen to have a lot of these, this might be the reason why your battery is draining abnormally and eventually decrease its health since you will have to charge your phone twice a day.
On Android devices, you can quickly see these by opening the quick settings tile, tapping on the three dot button and clicking on ‘Active apps’. You also get a ‘Stop’ button that quickly lets you stop these apps until they are launched again or you restart your phone.
This may not always be possible, but try not to use your smartphone outside when it’s extremely hot since the device itself, including the battery, may heat up quickly.
It is especially true in hot areas where the temperature is more than 40 degree Celsius. Smartphone chipsets already generate a lot of heat, and this is amplified if you use the phone for a while in a hot environment where the ambient temperature is higher than your smartphone.
If you think your smartphone has heated up, also avoid keeping them in pockets since it will keep the device hot for a longer time and degrade your battery health.
The 80 per cent limit may sound made up, but there’s a good reason why most smartphone manufacturers recommen charging your battery to the said limit. Heat is only one part of the equation why batteries degrade over time. Another reason why your battery might degrade quickly is because of high voltage.
Traditionally, battery voltages are usually high when charging for the first 60 per cent, and they eventually slow down when reaching to full. This isn’t worrisome if it happens a few times, but if you often charge your phone to full, the extra wear might add it and deplete the battery health faster. This is where the concept of limiting battery charge to 80 per cent comes in handy since the battery isn’t at the peak voltage when limiting battery charge. Modern smartphone manufacturers now offer built-in options that help you limit battery charge to 80 per cent.
However, it might not always be beneficial, since you might need that extra 20 per cent juice in some situations. If you always have a charger nearby, try limiting the maximum charge to 80 per cent, but you can always fully charge it up when going outside.
