How to Maximize Phone Battery Health: 4 Daily Habits

Heat can speed up battery wear, so move your phone out of direct sun and avoid leaving it in a hot car, especially while it’s charging. If your phone feels unusually warm during charging, pause demanding tasks such as gaming or video recording and let it cool in a shaded, well-ventilated spot.

Check the product’s listed specifications when evaluating keep your phone cool.

For an ordinary day, topping up when convenient and stopping around 80% can reduce the time your battery spends near full charge. When you need the longest possible runtime for travel or a busy day, charging to 100% is reasonable; you don’t need to sacrifice a usable phone to follow a target.

If your phone offers optimized or adaptive charging, consider turning it on: these settings are designed to limit how long the battery stays fully charged, often by finishing a charge closer to when you need the phone. A charging limit may also suit you if you’re near an outlet most days, but a limit that leaves you short of power is less practical than charging further.

Lowering screen brightness, using auto-brightness, and limiting background activity for apps you rarely use can help you get through the day with fewer top-ups. We recommend starting with your phone’s battery-usage screen to find unusually power-hungry apps, then changing only the settings that won’t interfere with notifications or features you rely on.