In terms of battery technology, Android phones have advanced significantly, with the majority of flagship handsets now having enough capacity to withstand a full day of use. The battery life of your Android phone could still not be as good as you would like, though.
Some apps have a tendency to drain your battery life excessively, even when you’re not using them. We’ll go over the reasons behind why some apps use up your Android battery more than others in this blog post, along with how to find the offenders and prevent app draining.
Why Do Apps Use Up Battery Power?
A few main causes for why some Android apps use greater battery life are as follows:
- Location Services: Applications that use GPS or actively track your location may drain your battery faster. Location services are typically used by social media apps, weather apps, and map/navigation apps.
- Syncing Data: Applications that sync data in the background, such as social media, email, and messaging apps, will continually use up battery life by connecting to the internet to transmit and receive updates.
- Display Usage: An application will use more battery life the more it uses the screen for animations, graphics, and video. Games, video calling apps, and streaming video apps are frequently display-intensive.
- Background Processes: Applications may continue to operate in the background, sucking up battery life and system resources even when you’re not actively using them. Apps with poor design are frequently to blame.
Determine Which Apps Drain Batteries
Finding the apps that use the most battery is the first step.
- To examine the battery usage for the past 24 hours, navigate to Settings and then Battery.
- The apps are ranked by percentage of battery usage, highest to lowest. Keep an eye out for any background apps that are consuming an abnormally large amount of battery.
- To obtain comprehensive usage statistics, tap the app. Verify how long the programme has been running in the background as opposed to the foreground.
- Keep an eye out for the worst battery drainers (mostly those with heavy background usage). In the next steps, you will first optimise these apps.
Limit the Use of Background Batteries
The battery life of apps that send notifications, sync data, or refresh content in the background can be greatly reduced. You are able to limit these applications’ background usage:
- Return to the Battery screen, then press the three vertical dots menu icon.
- Depending on your Android version, tap either “Background restriction” or “Battery optimisation.”
- To change an app, tap it and choose “Restrict,” “Optimised,” or “Unrestricted” according to your preferences. There are only two possibilities on some phones.
- Virtually all background activity is blocked by restrict.
- Optimised permits a certain amount of background activity depending on how you use the programme. For the majority of apps, this is the ideal choice.
- Unrestricted allows for full background operation but uses greater battery life.
Repeat with any additional apps whose battery statistics indicate excessive background consumption. Limiting background activities can make a big difference in battery life.
Modify the location’s settings
GPS and other location-based services are another significant cause of Android battery depletion.
- Navigate to Location under Settings.
- Turn off location services. OFF entirely, or go through the list of apps under “App permission” and turn off each app’s location access individually.
- Since Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning use location in the background, you might also want to turn these capabilities off.
Keep an eye on how much power your battery is using and limit the use of apps that drain it quickly. You can greatly increase the amount of time your Android phone’s battery lasts between charges with a few simple tweaks. Please feel free to ask any questions or offer recommendations in the space provided for comments below.