Battery Draining Quickly: Improve Battery Life (iPhone, Android, Laptop) (On a mobile device)

When you don't use your mobile device to browse the net, turn off the Wi-Fi feature, because it drains your battery even if your phone is in standby mode.

To turn the Wi-Fi off:

• Android:

Swipe down from the top of the screen (to access the Quick Menu) -> Tap on the Wi-Fi icon, or you can disable it in Settings (Wi-Fi -> move the small slider to "OFF" position).

• iOS:

Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Move the slider to OFF position.

Every mobile device has an integrated GPS, which is very useful. It helps us find unknown locations, restaurants and etc. However, it consumes a lot of energy and the battery will be drained in no time. 

Unfortunately, many people forget to turn it off after they are done using it, and it works in the background.

To learn how to turn the GPS feature off, check out these solutions.

When you don't need to browse the net, and the mobile/cellular data is active, deactivate it, because it consumes energy even if your device is in standby mode.

To deactivate the mobile/cellular data feature:

• Android:

Swipe down from the top of the screen -> tap on the Mobile Data icon (or Settings -> Data usage -> move the Mobile Data traffic slider to OFF position)

• iOS:

Settings -> Cellular -> Move the Cellular data slider to OFF position.

The higher the brightness level is, the faster the battery drains. This means that if you dim the display you will prolong the battery's duration, and minimize the effects of the "battery draining quickly" issue. Every OS (operating system) offers manual adjustment of brightness level and it can be done in a pretty easy way.

To learn how to dim the display, check out the don't know how to dim the display solutions.

Note: You may also enable an option to show battery percentage, to keep a close eye on the battery, following the steps below:

Android (taken on a Samsung Galaxy device - steps might vary from one device manufacturer to another):

iOS:

Most of the recent Android smartphones, like the Galaxy S6, Nexus 6 and HTC One M9 and others, have battery saving modes that can extend the life of your device, even if you’re already under 20%. Battery saver performs various operations with one goal, to save energy. It does that by limiting vibrations, location services and background data. 

To enable it go to Settings -> Battery saver (Power management) -> Find power saving mode (tap on the toggle).

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iOS also offers a setting called Low Power Mode which is an easy way to extend the battery life of your mobile device when it starts to get low.

To enable it, go to Settings -> Battery -> Tap on the toggle next to Low Power Mode

Visual effects which show window contents while dragging, and slide-out menus use more of your CPU (and your battery).

If you don't need them you can disable them easily.

To disable these effects:

• Android: 

Settings -> Developer options -> Window/Transition animation scale -> Animation is off

• iOS:

Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> switch on Reduce Motion to temporarily turn off all the parallax effects

If you want to maximise the usefulness of your battery, don't let it drop below 20%. Charge it to at least 80% rather than doing lots of little charges.

There's no need to charge it right the way to 100%. Do not let it run down completely too often as this puts extra stress on the battery and it might become unstable.

Every application installed in your mobile device runs in the background and drains your battery faster, no matter if you use it or not.

The best way to prevent applications from draining your battery is to delete them permanently.

To learn how to remove applications, check out the don't know how to uninstall a program solutions.

Even though they're "sitting" in the home screen, seemingly inactive, they're consuming power. This refers to widgets that show status updates in the background, as well as the ones that just "sit" there but look pretty and animated (animated live wallpaper).

Remove all the widgets from the home screen that you don't (want to) use and avoid setting a live wallpaper.

To remove a widget from the home screen:

Press and hold the widget you want to remove -> drag it to the small thrash can or the "X" sign (on the top or on the bottom).

To change the live wallpaper:

• Android:

Press and hold anywhere on the home screen until it gets smaller (or go to Settings -> Display - Wallpaper) -> tap on Wallpaper -> select one of the default wallpapers or add one by yourself.

• iOS:

Settings -> Wallpaper -> Choose a new wallpaper

Applications often get updated to use less battery power, so you should make sure your apps are up to date. Even if you configured the phone to download updates automatically, some applications might still require your manual intervention to install updates.

Check out the don't know how to update programs/applications guide which will help you if you are not fully sure how to check for and update apps in your mobile device.