Your phone overheating is a real problem; an overheated phone can
result in battery and system issues. Here’s how to cool down your phone.
If your phone is regularly overheating, you have a problem on your hands. A hot phone can damage your battery and hurt your system-on-a-chip, the delicate operating system that keeps your phone functional. If you struggle with keeping your phone cool, regularly operate the CPU Cooler feature. CPU Cooler works by pinpointing the apps running in the background of your phone that are causing your phone’s temperature to decrease. Click here to cool down your device with a single click:
CPU Cooler is the best way to cool down your phone quickly, but if you
really struggle with keeping your phone cool, you’ll likely want to try
multiple cool-down methods. Here are 4.
Put Your Phone Into a Cool Place
Your phone overheats more quickly if
you store it on a sunny windowsill or in the glovebox of your car on a hot day.
Getting your phone out of these hot environments can cool it down immediately —
try putting it into a dark room or even cool it down with a fan. Never put it
into the freezer or refrigerator, though. Cold temperatures can damage your
phone, too.
Update Your Apps or Get Rid of the
Ones You No Longer Use
Even if you don’t use them, apps
often run and update in the background of your phone, making your phone work
harder than necessary. Get rid of these unwanted apps rather than letting them
linger on your phone. Also, be sure to update your older apps. Developers often
release updates that prevent overheating.
Limit Your Time Playing Games or Taking
Pictures
Playing games requires a lot of work
on your phone’s part, so it can really heat up your device. Same with taking
pictures, especially high-resolution photographs. If you enjoy these
activities, try setting a timer to limit how long you’re sucked into game
playing or photography — these are some of the biggest reasons devices
overheat.
Separate Your Running Devices
While it might be convenient to keep
your phone and your tablet stacked together on your desk or in your purse,
don’t do it. Multiple devices running near one another can heat all of them up.
These are a few simple steps to stop
your phone from heating up — and damaging your battery and operating system.
Remember, keeping your phone cool can extend its life.
Do you know how to keep your
smartphone's battery healthy?
Probably not. In fact, you may have
been hastening the death of your phone's battery with your charging habits.
Charging to 100%, or overnight? Fully
discharging before plugging in? These common practices can shorten the usable
life of your battery, according to Cadex, a company that offers
devices that test smartphone
batteries, among others.
How to best extend the life of batteries
has been a prime topic since Apple disclosed last month that it was slowing down iphones with degraded batteries to prevent the
devices from shutting down unexpectedly.
Cadex offers a lot of information on
its Battery University website, including about lithium-ion
batteries — the type that powers smartphones.
It turns out that if you want to
delay having to replace your battery or buy a new phone, there are specific
percentage levels within which you should keep your phone's battery.
Here's how to — and how not to —
charge your phone.
The best way to charge your phone is a little at a time, whenever you have a chance.
Just plug it in whenever you can,
even if it's for a few minutes, and you'll be fine.
"Partial charges cause no harm," according to Battery University.
Don't fully discharge your phone before plugging it in.
Battery University says that
so-called deep discharges — when you use your phone until only a small portion
of its battery life is left — wear down batteries.
Samsung echoes that advice in a blog post offering tips on how to extend your phone's
battery life.
Try to keep your battery's charge level between 65% and 75%.
According to Battery University, the
lithium-ion battery in your smartphone will last longest if you keep it 65% to
75% charged at all times.
Clearly, it's impractical to always keep your phone charge between those levels — but at least you know what's ideal.
If you can't do that, shoot for keeping its charge level between 45% and 75%.
The second-best charge range for
batteries inside smartphones is 45% to 75% — probably a lot more realistic for
most people on a day-to-day basis than 65% to 75%.
You could even develop a daily
routine to plug in your phone at particular times to keep its charge within
those levels.
But you have some wiggle room. If you typically keep your phone's charge level between 25% and 75%, you most likely won't cause too much long-term damage.
Never fully charge your battery — and particularly not from a low charge level.
Charging your phone's battery to 100%
from a low 25% — or pretty much any amount — can reduce its capacity and
shorten its lifespan.
According to Battery University,
lithium-ion batteries do "not need to be fully charged, nor is it
desirable to do so."
"In fact, it is better not to fully charge," it says, "because a high voltage stresses the battery" and wears it out in the long run.
You probably shouldn't charge your phone overnight.
I've seen a lot of debate about the
effects of charging your smartphone overnight.
But if charging to 100% causes the most damage to a phone battery's lifespan, you should probably cut it out.
Thinner and thinner smartphones seem to be the
trend lately, and one that many people complain about. But iPhones have
actually gotten thicker over the last few years, mostly thanks to beefier
hardware and added technology.
I’m sure you’ve heard the complaints before:
“I want
Apple to make a thicker iPhone with a bigger battery!”
“I would
gladly accept a thicker iPhone if it meant better battery life!”
“I’m sick
of manufacturers making phones thinner and sacrificing battery capacity.”
Those complaints certainly had some merit several years
ago—from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 6, overall device thickness decreased by
44%, from 12.3mm all the way down to 6.9mm.
Phone thinness used to be a bragging point for manufacturers—and it still somewhat is—but in this day and age, a super-thin phone isn’t something to boast about unless it can also deliver good-enough battery life. And therein lies the true challenge when creating a thin smartphone: battery capacity and battery life.
Thin Phones
Are Great, but So Is Awesome Battery Life
The thinner you make a
smartphone, the less room you have for the battery and other components. Sure,
you can try to make all of the circuitry smaller to fit in more battery, but
the battery already takes up a majority of the space inside a phone, and the
circuitry can only get so small.
Surprisingly, though, while iPhones were getting thinner and thinner between 2008 and 2014, battery capacity was steadily increasing, and it still is to this day.
Charts do not include Plus/Max models
The iPhone 3G had a
1,150 mAh battery, and through the years that Aincreased to a 1,810 mAh battery
in the iPhone 6, even though the phone itself was much thinner. This doesn’t
necessarily mean that physical battery size increased by that much, but the
more milliamp hours (mAh) in a battery, the better battery life, theoretically.
In fact, from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 6, talk time increased from 5 to 14 hours. Internet use over Wi-Fi increased from 6 to 11 hours. Video playback increased from 7 to 11 hours. And audio playback increased from 24 to 50 hours.
Of course, it’s great
that battery capacity and life has steadily been on the rise, but it’s safe to
say that if Apple wasn’t so gung-ho on making iPhones as thin as possible, they
probably could’ve squeezed in even
more battery capacity than they did during that era.
Thankfully,
iPhones Are Getting Thicker
The good news is that Apple finally seems to be getting to the point where phones can’t get any thinner, at least for now. Better yet, rather than just keeping new iPhone models at 6.9mm (the thickness of the iPhone 6, which is the thinnest-ever iPhone), iPhones have gotten progressively thicker.
As you can see in the graph above, starting in 2015 with the release of the iPhone 6S, iPhones have continuously been getting thicker, and batteries have gotten much bigger. From the iPhone 6 to the iPhone XR, overall thickness has increased by 1.4mm. That may not seem like a lot, but that’s a healthy 20% increase in thickness.
iPhone 6 (left) vs. iPhone XS (right)
Because of that (and also thanks to the continuing advancements in battery tech), iPhone battery capacity has seen a 72% increase from the iPhone 6S to the iPhone XR—better than the 53% increase from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 6.
The Real
Truth, Though: iPhones Are Thicker Because of Added Technology
Now, it’s important to
note that Apple likely hasn’t been making its phones thicker so that they can
squeeze in bigger batteries. Rather, it’s because of all the added technology
that the company has tacked on to the iPhone over the years—bigger batteries
and better battery life is likely just a bonus.
Let’s break it down a
little to show why iPhones have gotten thicker:
The iPhone 6S is 0.2mm thicker than the iPhone 6, likely due to the addition of 3D Touch within the display.
The Plus models of the 7, and 8 are also 0.2mm thicker than their smaller brethren, thanks to the dual-lens camera. The 6 Plus and 6s Plus didn’t have dual-lens cameras, but they did have optical image stabilization.
The iPhone 8 is 0.2mm thicker than the iPhone 7, thanks to the addition of wireless charging and a rear glass panel (instead of aluminum).
The iPhone X is 0.4mm thicker than the iPhone 8, likely because of the dual-lens camera in a smaller body than past Plus models. The logic board is also , but this is probably just to make room for a larger battery, and not the main reason for the thicker frame.
The iPhone XR is 0.6mm thicker than the iPhone X due to its LCD (rather than using thinner OLED technology from the X and XS).
It’s also worth noting
that iPhones have gotten bigger (23% increase in surface area from the iPhone 6
to the iPhone XR), so larger batteries were inevitable no matter the thickness.
Plus, with faster CPUs, more memory, and larger displays, processing power on iPhones is getting more and more demanding. This means Apple is forced to increase the battery capacity to keep battery life from going down the drain. The iPhone X is a great example—that extra room for a bigger battery was likely a requirement, rather than a cool bonus feature.
Because of that, while battery capacity has increased
significantly over the years, battery life hasn’t necessarily followed an
identical path. On average, there has only been a 48% increase in battery
life—compared to the 72% increase in battery capacity—from the iPhone 6S to the
XR. That’s still a nice increase, but it goes to show that larger battery
capacity doesn’t directly translate to better battery life.
In the end, iPhones are no longer getting thinner, even
if it may seem that way—Apple still likes like to rave on about how thin their
phones are. And even if thicker iPhones exist purely because of larger camera
sensors and beefier components, at least overall battery life has been on an
upward trend ever since the original model was released.
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