Samsung reveals ‘change screen’ settings trick that instantly unlocks extra battery life – don’t ignore list of tweaks
SAMSUNG has revealed some simple settings tweaks to instantly upgrade your battery life.
They affect your display, which can be a huge drain on your battery.
If your Samsung Galaxy phone isn’t making it through the whole day, it might be time to take a look at settings.
This may be the case if you’ve had your phone for a while: rechargeable lithium-ion batteries like the ones inside smartphones naturally degrade.
That means they’ll hold less charge compared to when they were new, which means you may need to make some changes to boost the phone’s battery life.
“Galaxy phones are designed to offer high performance and excellent battery life,” Samsung explained.
“However, battery life depends on how the battery is used and different devices have different battery life.
“Long screen time-out settings or high display brightness can substantially reduce the battery.
“To save battery, consider lowering your brightness setting, deactivating auto-brightness, reducing the sleep timeout setting and adjusting your screen resolution and wallpaper.”
SAMSUNG DISPLAY SETTINGS TO IMPROVE BATTERY
An easy tweak to make is to reduce the screen resolution.
By choosing a lower resolution, you can make instant battery savings.
Just go to Settings > Display > Change Screen Resolution and choose one of the left-most options, then hit Apply.
You should also try reducing the Screen Timeout delay.
This governs how long the screen stays active after you last touched it.
It’s set to 30 seconds by default, but you can drop it to 15 seconds in Settings > Display > Screen Timeout.
Reducing screen brightness is a very simple way to improve battery life.
You can do this in Settings > Display, or more quickly by swiping down from the top of the screen and using the quick-panel slider.
And unless you’re somewhere very bright, you may need to go to Settings > Display and deactivate Adaptive Brightness to prevent this from being overridden.
If your Samsung phone has an AMOLED display (and many recent models do) then Dark Mode can improve battery life too.
Samsung – a brief history
Here's what you need to know...
- Samsung is a major South Korean company made up of many businesses that operate globally
- It’s known locally as a “chaebol”, which means “business conglomerate”
- It was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company
- But over several decades, it branched out into food processing, insurance, textiles and retail
- It wasn’t until the late 1960s when Samsung entered the electronics industry – for which it’s best known in the West today
- It also launched businesses in construction and shipbuilding in the 1970s
- Today, Samsung’s most important sources of income are its smartphones and computer chips
- The firm accounts for around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports, and roughly 17% of the country’s GDP
- More than 270,000 staff are employed by Samsung globally
- And in 2023, Samsung Electronics turned over the equivalent of $194 billion in revenue
Just go to Settings > Display to turn it on across your entire system.
Try out one or more of these changes to see if your battery life improves without totally ruining your smartphone experience.