Tips To Prolong Your Smartphone’s Battery Life!

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly finding myself lamenting over the short lifespan of my smartphone battery. Being (almost unhealthily) dependent on my iPhone, I know the pain of perpetually stressing about keeping it alive when I’m out and about all too well.

For some people, like me, keeping your phone up and running for the whole day when you have it open 24/7 is a lost cause. However, there are a number of things I keep in mind that do help me to preserve my battery life.

Here are five of them:

1. Quit Your Apps

No, I don’t mean just pushing the menu button and closing out of it. For those of you who don’t know, even when you’ve closed out of your apps, they’re still running in the background! This drains a good deal of your battery life, and I’ve personally noticed a huge difference in my battery once I started quitting any apps that I haven’t used in a while.
Here’s how you do it on iPhone:

1. Have your phone unlocked and open.
2. Double-push your menu button.
   You’ll see a screen displaying each of the apps that you currently have running in the background. You can go through each of them by swiping to the right (almost like flipping through the pages of a book!).
3. To quit an app, swipe right until it appears at the centre of the screen (its name will appear at the top).
4. Swipe upwards. This will drag the app up until it disappears past the top of your screen.
5. Voilà! You’ve quit out of the app.

On Android, the process is much the same, except you swipe right instead of up to quit an app. However, accessing the screen that allows you to swipe-and-quit your apps varies depending on your device. For example, on the HTC One, you tap the home button twice; on the Samsung Galaxy S4, you press and hold the button; and on the Nexus 5, there’s an on-screen button that you can tap to get there.