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Google has features to preserve your phone's battery life

Android offers a great user experience for many users, with one of the main reasons being its ability to adjust the phone to their personal preferences. This includes being able to control how your device consumes battery power – which can help a lot when it seems your Android phone is using more power than it should. It might not be a problem if you're working from home or near a power source, but if you're away from home, you might want to consider implementing a few simple changes to get the most out of battery life.

Google has published a set of tips on how to get the most out of a Pixel smartphone battery, almost all of the additional tips it provides are applicable to any Android phone.

One of the easiest ways to save your phone battery is to lower the screen brightness. Auto-brightness settings can be useful to help with this aspect, but it's also worth manually lowering it as low as possible. This becomes a little more difficult if you're outdoors, as the additional ambient light will mean you'll need to increase the screen's brightness. However, you can also reduce screen usage by using Google Assistant to launch apps and check your email, messages, and have it perform other functions with just voice control. The latest mid-range and high-end Android phones also have high refresh rate display settings that you can turn on or off – if battery life is vital for you, it's also something you might consider turning off to extend your mileage .

Another simple way to extend battery life on an Android phone, especially one with a low battery, is to use the built-in battery saver feature. This handy feature pauses many of the phone's background activities that can drain your battery. For example, instead of your phone routinely checking a server for your latest email in the background, it will just pull the most recent messages when you open the app. It will do this for all apps that are normally running in the background, such as social media feeds. Battery Saver also reduces CPU usage – but also performance – which can have its drawbacks. The advantage is that the battery life is much better.

Adaptive Battery is also an important battery saving feature for powering an Android phone. It was introduced in Android 9 and works by applying Google's smart algorithm technology to learn how you use your phone's apps and adjusts the amount of background activity each app uses accordingly. This is a smart feature designed to help you keep using your phone without having to worry too much about manually adjusting background activity settings. This can take up to two weeks. However, once their deep learning smarts understand usage, users often report a significant improvement in battery life.

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