Tap any app with a high usage percentage alongside it and see how often it's burning through battery power in the background.įor any app that's using a high amount of battery power in the background, look through the app's settings and see if you can disable some of its background features. Open the Battery section of your phone's system settings, then either scroll down that screen to find the app-by-app breakdown or press the three-dot menu icon in the upper-right corner and select "Battery usage" (with more recent versions of Android). "The apps that are engaging the various radios and doing autonomous communication in the background are the ones that will be draining the battery the most," said Jordan Mayerson, CEO of Hoplite Power. Some apps are constantly updating you with information that you may not need. Also look for any news or weather alert app as a possible power-draining culprit. Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp Messenger, Netflix, and Amazon Shopping also top the list of apps that can suck a battery dry. Find and disable apps that use the most power using background activity Turn that off, as it's using your smartphone's antennas to constantly search for your location. But more often than not, users don't need location services. Smartphones have built-in GPS functions, which is great when you want to know how far away you are from a location or if you need directions to the nearest coffee shop. Instead, you can limit certain apps' ability to consume power in the background, as we'll cover in step 3 – and if you're using Android 9 or higher, you can lean on the operating system's Adaptive Battery feature, located in the Battery section of the system settings, to automatically limit the amount of power made available to apps you don't use often. Gold Associates, and most Android experts agree it's generally not advisable to manually stop apps on your own. Android phones have more granular settings than iOS does for power management, said Jack Gold, principal analyst with J. On an iPhone, turning off apps can be as simple as accessing the app manager and swiping the apps off your screen.
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