Does Your Phone Drain Battery Quickly? It Turns Out That This Default Function Is Causing Trouble. Turn It Off Quickly.

You may have never turned off this "invisible power hog"

Many people have had this experience. When their mobile phones are fully charged, they go out, but soon the battery drops below 50%.

The first reaction is often that the battery is dead, or that the phone needs to be replaced after being used for a long time.

In fact, many times, the battery itself does not have a problem, but the problem occurs in a device that most people will not notice at all.

This feature has been turned on by default since the day the phone was purchased. It runs continuously in the background and you cannot detect its existence. However, it does secretly consume every bar of power.

Background application refresh, what exactly is "refreshing"?

This function has slightly different names in different mobile phone systems, some are called background App refresh, and some are called self-starting management, but its essence is the same.

In short, even if you exit the software, it can still run online in the background, update content, and receive relevant messages.

For example, the shopping software you browsed yesterday will continue to refresh product recommendations in the background; the news software you rarely open will also quietly start downloading the latest information.

When these software are running in the background, the processor is working, the network connection is also working, and the power is consumed bit by bit.

Many people have sixty or seventy software installed on their mobile phones. Among these software, most of them do not need to run in the background. However, they all consume power at the same time. The result is that in just half a day, the power of the mobile phone is reduced by half, and the mobile phone often becomes hot at this time.

How big is the difference in battery life after turning it off?

Some people may think that it is just a background refresh, how much power does it consume?

But in actual comparison, the difference is very obvious.

For the same mobile phone, when the background refresh function is turned on, under normal use, if you are performing video operations, chatting on WeChat, or watching news, you will need to find a charger at two or three in the afternoon.

After turning off this function, it is still in normal use. Until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, there is still about 30% of the remaining power.

There is a very intuitive change that is not about power saving, but that the phone does not get hot so easily. The reason for this is that the number of programs running in the background is not as many as before, and the burden on the processor is reduced.

In addition, the pressure on the running memory will be reduced, the speed of opening software will be faster, and the use of the mobile phone will feel smoother.

Many people spend a lot of money to buy new mobile phones, but they may just not turn off this function.

For Android and Apple, the shutdown method is actually very simple.

No matter what brand of phone you are using, turning off background refresh is not difficult and can be done in just a few steps.

Generally speaking, Android phones have this operation path: first open the settings on the phone, then find application management in the settings, or directly search for "applications". After entering, you have to find permission management or background running options. In permission management, under the background activity permissions item, the relevant information of all software included in the phone will be listed.

Turn off the background refresh operation of all software that is not frequently used, such as game software, tool software, shopping software, and news software.

Types of chat software and payment software, that is, software that needs to receive messages, can be retained, but other software can basically be turned off.

For Apple-brand mobile phones, it's even easier. Go directly to the settings options, find the General section, click to enter it, and you can see the refresh status of the background App.

After entering, you can directly turn off the main switch, or you can set it up separately, leaving only a few frequently used software and turning off the rest.

After turning it off, the phone will not receive messages because of this, but the software will not refresh secretly in the background.

With these habits, your mobile phone will save more power

In addition to turning off background refresh, there are several small details that can be adjusted together to further improve the battery life of the phone.

First of all, if the screen brightness exists, it should be adjusted to automatic brightness as much as possible instead of continuously turning it on to the brightest state, because the screen is one of the most power-consuming parts of the mobile phone.

The second is to turn off unused functions. That is to say, Bluetooth should be turned off, personal hotspots should also be turned off, and location services should also be turned off. They must be turned off after use. Don't leave them on all the time.

The third is to clean up the background programs regularly. This does not mean to constantly scratch out all the software, but to take a look every few days and clean out the unused software that has been hanging for a long time from the background.

The fourth one includes dynamic wallpapers and dynamic effects. Although they look quite cool, they actually consume more power than static wallpapers. If you are not pursuing that kind of visual effect, then switching to static wallpapers will be more practical.

To save power on your mobile phone, it does not mean that you use your mobile phone less, but that you turn off unnecessary consumption. This is the case, yes.

Many times, a small setup can solve a big problem.

Next time, when you notice that your phone is losing power quickly again, don’t rush to replace the battery first. Open the settings options of your phone and check whether the background refresh function is still turned on.

After turning it off, you will find that the phone is much more durable than before, and charging it once a day is basically enough.