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Using this list, you can quickly see which apps are the biggest and swipe an app to the side to quit it; on an iPhone, you double-press
battery-use offenders. You’ll likely find that the apps with the highest the home button and then swipe an app’s screen upward.) The theory
battery usage also have the longest on-screen time—in other words, here is that apps running in the background are using your phone’s
they’re using a lot of battery because the screen is on most of the time processor, memory, and other components, so quitting them will use
you’re actively using them. You won’t be able to do much about those less energy.
apps other than to use them less.
Although that may sometimes be true on a computer, smartphones
BATTERY SAVING MYTHS are designed differently: Once an app is no longer in the foreground—
meaning you aren’t actively using it—most or all of its processes
MYTH: TURN OFF WI-FI are frozen. While an app may still be loaded in RAM (temporary
A similarly common suggestion for extending battery life is to memory), the app is unlikely to be doing stuff in the background to
drain your battery. Your phone’s operating system also automatically
disable Wi-Fi. However, if you’re in range of a strong Wi-Fi signal, closes apps in the background when it needs RAM for other tasks.
your phone uses less energy to connect to the Internet with a Wi-Fi Finally, quitting apps can actually have drawbacks: When you force-
connection than a cellular one. In addition, if you regularly use apps quit an app, that may purge all of its code from your phone’s RAM,
that rely on your location, having Wi-Fi enabled helps your phone which means that the next time you open the app, the phone has to
determine its location without relying solely on power-hungry GPS reload all of that code—which, of course, requires energy.
features, so it actually helps your phone’s battery last longer.
IF YOU STILL NEED MORE JUICE: BATTERY PACKS
Unless you’re at the edges of a Wi-Fi network, where your phone
is struggling to get a solid connection, and you have a good cellular- These accessories, which can take the form of a bulky case with a
data connection—in other words, your phone is keeping both Wi-Fi built-in battery, or a separate battery that connects to your phone with
and cellular active, and switching between the two—you’re usually a cable, provide the power you need to last an additional few hours at
better off keeping Wi-Fi enabled. the end of the day, or even to fully charge your phone’s battery.
MYTH: CLOSE OR QUIT INACTIVE APPS Jeff Bohr
There’s a good chance you’ve seen this “tip” for extending battery Naples Mac Help
239.595.0482 | jeff@jeffbohr.com
life: Close (or force-quit, as it’s commonly called) apps that you aren’t
currently using. (On Android, you press the task-switching button
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