Battery Life and
Performance
Optimisation

Battery life can be affected by various factors such as device settings, environment and usage patterns.
Understand these factors to use your battery more efficiently and for a longer period of time.

Factors Affecting Battery Life

Environment

Battery consumption increases in areas with weak or
overlapping signals or with increased screen brightness
under strong sunlight or any other light source.

※ Galaxy offers Adaptive Brightness to optimise screen visibility based on the light intensityof the environment.

※ Galaxy offers Adaptive Brightness to optimise screen visibility based on the light intensityof the environment.

Usage Pattern

Galaxy’s AMOLED Display has a high contrast ratio that
will increase battery consumption. Increased screen
brightness, longer intervals before screen timeout,
high-performance apps, streaming high-resolution content,
and location services or other allowed services will also
increase battery consumption.

Settings Tips to Extend Battery Life

Discover various ways to easily manage your device’s battery usage and extend battery life!

※ This was written based on Android P OS (Version 9.0).
Names of certain features and entry points may vary depending on the Android OS version.

1. Optimize your battery in ‘Settings’

Optimize your battery.

1. Optimise your battery in ‘Settings’

  • Optimise your battery.
    • Enter Settings and select Device care
      01

      Go to ‘Settings’ and click ‘Device care’.

    • Select optimise now button
      02

      Tap ‘Optimise now’ to optimise your ‘Battery’, ‘Storage’, ‘Memory’ and ‘Security’.

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2. Optimize your battery in ‘Settings’

Maintain sleep status for rarely used apps.

2. Optimise your
battery in ‘Settings’

  • Maintain sleep status for rarely used apps.
    • Select See more in the battery menu of device care
Select Sleeping apps
      01

      In ‘Battery’, tap ‘See more’ to go to Settings and click ‘Sleeping apps’.

    • Select Add button Select apps to add to power save list
      02

      Tap ‘Add’ to select apps you want in sleep status,
      then tap ‘Add’ once again.

    ※ ‘Sleeping apps’ won’t run in the background and may not receive updates and/or send notifications.
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Enable ‘Power mode’

When the battery is running low, enable ‘Power mode’ to extend battery life.

Once ‘Power mode’ is enabled, background apps will be restricted from Wi-Fi and mobile data,
and energy-consuming features like Always On Display will be disabled to extend battery life.

You can adjust CPU speed, brightness level and background networks to your preference.

※ When ‘Power mode’ is enabled, background data restrictions will apply to all apps and location services may also be limited.

Clean up unused apps and features.

Check battery usage and close unused apps.

Clean up unused
apps and features.

  • Check battery usage and close unused apps.
    • Select Battery usage in the battery menu
      01

      Go to ‘Device care’ in ‘Settings’ and click ‘Battery,’ and then ‘Battery usage’.

    • View list of apps using battery Select Hide OS and system apps in the See more menu Check the actual battery usage of apps
      02

      Click ‘See more’ and tap ‘Hide OS and system apps’
      Check the battery usage and details of apps actually in use.

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Change Display Settings.

Turn display off by pressing the power button when the device is not in use.
Set ‘Screen timeout’ to a short interval.
Lower your brightness. The brighter the screen, the higher the contrast ratio,
which leads to higher battery consumption.
Extend battery life by using a dark-tone wallpaper or theme

* Images shown are for illustration purpose only.
** UI may be different depending on the device model, country or mobile operators.