What are your options when your phone battery stops holding its charge as well as it used to? It becomes more important than ever to change settings that are taxing on your phone’s resources, for starters. This means disabling Background App Refresh, Push Notifications, and lowering your screen brightness as much as possible. These three changes alone can go a long way toward boosting your battery power and speeding your phone along.
Another important reminder from tech experts is to stop manually closing your apps. This can take a toll on your battery — and there’s no benefit to doing it:
You can also look at the apps on your phone with a more critical eye to try and decide which of them you can afford to delete for the sake of a better running phone. If you’re not sure where to start, these two apps are known as “battery-suckers” that take up tons of phone resources. The cherry on top is that they aren’t necessary apps.
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1. Games
Games are a fun distraction that are great when you’re waiting on line somewhere. But most of us can agree they aren’t crucial to keep, and the problem with them is that those that are graphically intense (like Call of Duty Mobile and Asphalt 9) use a lot of GPU/CPU and have high frame rates. They drain a lot of battery power and can slow down your phone. If you can’t bring yourself to deleting all of your games, delete as many as you can and consider keeping lower graphic games.
2. Messaging Apps
Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram are always working in the background (and could be listening to your conversations), are full of media like photos, videos, and voice notes that take up more storage space, and keep your screen bright while you’re using them, which really runs down your battery. It’s understandable why you’d want to use a messaging app, but it’s a good idea to limit your apps to just one to keep your battery usage down.
