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# Tip 1: Adjust Your Screen Brightness and Screen Timeout
One of the most significant power draining culprits on your smartphone is the display. This makes it quite integral to manage your screen settings smartly for longer battery life. Two sub-facets of screen settings can have a tremendous battery life impact; screen brightness and screen timeout.
## Screen Brightness
Ideally, you should adjust the brightness level as low as comfortable to save your battery. However, constantly adjusting it to fit your surroundings is not feasible. Fortunately, modern smartphones offer a feature called ‘adaptive brightness’ or ‘auto brightness.’ By enabling this feature, the phone automatically adjusts the screen brightness based on the surrounding light conditions using the device’s ambient light sensor.
While it may increase battery consumption in some scenarios (a very brightly lit environment where maximum screen brightness is required), generally, this feature optimizes the display’s power consumption aptly.
Moreover, certain smartphones have OLED displays. These screens only illuminate colored pixels, keeping the black pixels turned off. Hence, using a dark theme or a dark mode can significantly conserve battery life on these devices.
## Screen Timeout
The second crucial element under screen settings is the ‘Screen Timeout’ or ‘Sleep’ setting. This setting determines how long the device’s screen stays lit after you’ve stopped touching it. Setting it to a minimum can significantly save battery life. An ideal screen timeout setting falls between 15 seconds to 30 seconds. However, if this leads to too frequent unlocking, adjust it to a balance between convenience and battery conservation.
It is a good practice to manually lock your phone whenever you are done using it. It’s quick, easy, and ensures that your screen isn’t unnecessarily depleting battery life.
# Tip 2: Minimize Notifications
Although they seem harmless, notifications can be quite a battery drainer for your smartphone. Each new notification lights up your screen, makes a sound, vibrates, and runs in the background – all collectively using up battery life. Therefore, it is pertinent to keep your notifications under check.
Start by pinpointing which apps send you the most notifications. Social media apps are usually the prime offenders, followed by promotional emails and some news apps. Once you’ve identified these apps, take steps to limit their notifications.
On both Android and iOS, you can access each app’s specific notification settings and customize them to your preference. You can altogether disable notifications for specific apps or limit them to only important notifications. For example, a social media app can be set to only alert when you receive a direct message or a mention, rather than every like and comment.
To further minimize the impact of notifications, you can also disable notification previews. This prevents the notification from lighting up the screen of your device when received, reducing battery usage as a consequence.
Next, you can turn off vibration for notifications. Vibration is a significant battery-consuming factor as it requires a decent amount of power to physically shake your device. If you aren’t in a situation where you could easily miss a notification purely by sound, considering turning off vibration for notifications would be a smart choice to prolong battery life.
Remember that while notifications are useful, they should be a way of keeping informed rather than being a nuisance or consuming more battery life than necessary.
I’ll continue with the next two tips in the next part. For any specific details or aspects, let me know!
