The most important specification to look out for when buying phones and laptops is probably the battery strength. You know how frustrating it can be when your batteries keep draining out fast. Buying devices with excellent battery strength is not enough to guarantee long battery life, you need to use yoir devices in ways that will extend your battery life and keep you from having to replace them too soon. These are 7 tips that work.


1. Keep Your Phone and Laptop Cool

Few things cause a battery to degrade faster than high temperatures. Don’t leave a laptop, phone, or other gadget in a hot car, make sure your laptop doesn’t overheat, and keep your phone from getting too hot. Making your gadgets last longer is a good excuse to turn on the air conditioner.


2. Turn Down the Brightness

You’ll squeeze more battery life out of your phone by turning the brightness down. Previous tests suggest the difference in battery life between the highest and lowest brightness settings on an iPhone is a few hours. Dark wallpapers might also make a difference. Brightness matters also when you’re running on battery on your laptop.

3. Choose Sleep Mode Rather Than Shutdown If You’ll Use Your Laptop Soon

When you put your laptop to sleep it still draws some power, which might lead you to think it’s better to shutdown your computer. However, in our experience, shutting down and starting up a laptop can actually draw more power than putting it to sleep and waking it. Hibernating saves more battery life than sleep mode, but it takes longer to get back to up and running.

4. Calibrate Your Phone or Laptop Battery

Your phone and laptop can sometimes lie about how much charge you have left. Calibrating the battery every so often will make sure it’s accurate. The process is pretty easy, at least on laptops. (Unfortunately, if calibration doesn’t help and your battery life is piddling, it’s time to replace the battery, if possible.)

5. Don’t Let Your Phone or Laptop Run Out of Battery Too Often

Modern batteries these days don’t need to be frequently fully discharged in order to retain battery life. Instead, charge more often before use rather than letting the battery run down. These shallow charges will help extend your battery’s lifespan.

6. Don’t Leave Your Phone Plugged In When It’s Completely Charged

In a similar vein, you don’t need to charge your battery all the way to 100%. 40-80% would be preferable. If you do charge plug it so it doesn’t stay at that fully-charged, battery-health-eating state.

7. Test and Monitor Your Laptop’s Battery

Batteries can be mystifying with all these do’s and don’ts to follow. If you find your laptop battery doesn’t hold a charge very long anymore, there are some troubleshooting tips and tools you can try to fix the problem, whether you’re on Mac or Windows.

When choosing a new gadget, remember that battery life is the most important spec.

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