Extend battery life

Choose settings that use less battery

To get the most life from your battery:

  • Connections: turn off Bluetooth and GPS when you're not using them.
  • Wi‑Fi: turn on Wi‑Fi when the phone is in a location with Wi‑Fi coverage.
  • Screen: turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.
  • Sync: if you don't need it, turn off automatic syncing for all accounts. This means you won't receive notifications when updates occur and you'll need to sync manually to get new emails.

Temporarily conserve battery power

Use Battery Saver mode to keep going on a low battery.

Also, avoid these battery-intensive activities until you can charge:

  • Recording or watching videos
  • Listening to music
  • Taking pictures
  • Using Live (animated) wallpaper

See what's using your battery

To see if a specific app or service is draining your battery:

  1. Open Settings and touch Battery.
  2. Review the list to see power used by apps or features since the last full charge.
  3. Touch the app or feature using a lot of power.
  4. Under Adjust power usage, touch options for reducing the power usage.

You can also see what phone features are using your battery.

Keep battery optimisation on

To ensure that apps use your battery only when they need to, keep battery optimisation on for all apps.

When battery optimisation is on, Android monitors how much battery the apps use and minimises their battery usage when:

  • You aren't using your phone.
  • You haven't used an app for a few days.

To check that battery optimisation is on:

  1. Open Settings and touch Battery.
  2. Touch > Battery optimisation.

  3. If an app is listed as Not optimised:

    1. Touch the app.

    2. Touch Optimise > Done.

      TipOptimise isn't available for some essential services.