--- title: "How to Help Keep Your Mobile Devices Kicking for Longer - Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business" description: "We all depend on mobile devices, so we’re sharing some tips to help prolong their battery life." url: "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/how-to-help-keep-your-mobile-devices-kicking-for-longer" date: "2026-06-07T04:35:16+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- ## Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business Insights on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy to help business leaders reduce risk, improve performance, and make better technology decisions. [ Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories "Categories") [ Tags ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags "Tags") [ Categories: All Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0); "Categories") Search...Suggested keywords [ x ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) # How to Help Keep Your Mobile Devices Kicking for Longer [Coleman Technologies Blog](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/blog) [How to](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/how-to) [Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) Monday, 19 September 2022 [ ![How to Help Keep Your Mobile Devices Kicking for Longer](//colemantechnologies.com/images/easyblog_shared/September_2022/09-19-22/b2ap3_large_mobileHardware_425310788_400.jpg) ](//colemantechnologies.com/images/easyblog_shared/September_2022/09-19-22/mobileHardware_425310788_400.jpg "How to Help Keep Your Mobile Devices Kicking for Longer") It’s a common enough frustration—just as you really need it, your mobile device’s battery is on its last legs. This is something that we all would like to avoid if we could. That’s why we wanted to take the time to share a few ways to prolong your device’s battery life just a bit longer. ## Five Tricks to Prolong Your Device’s Battery Life While there are a few other means of keeping your device charged for longer, we figured it best to stick to the simplest and most cost-effective ones. ### Avoid Apps that Drink Up Charge Different applications will call for different things, and if those demands utilize more of the system’s resources, more power will be necessary to support them. Basically, the more computing that needs to be done, the more power will be used up. This is why using multiple apps at once eats away at your battery faster, too. Apps that keep the screen on, play video, or make your phone generally feel warm to the touch tend to be the ones that consume the most battery. ### Keep Locked When Not Actively Using Locking your phone offers a variety of benefits, not the least of which is the fact that it turns off the screen, thereby saving your device a considerable amount of power. ### Update the OS Your phone’s operating system effectively controls how the device works, which itself will influence how long its battery lasts. In fact, part of the improvements made during updates are generally related to battery optimization. Therefore, an up-to-date OS and the bug fixes it brings often assists with battery performance and longevity. ### Set Sleep Mode to Kick in Faster As a power-saving measure, most mobile devices have a setting that will turn off the screen and suspend background processes until the phone is actively used once again. Once sleep mode is activated, it requires a password to disengage, making it a basic security feature as well as a power-saving one. ### Minimize Notifications and Location Services While both location services and notifications are meant to make a mobile device’s processes more convenient, they can also result in the battery being drained. Try turning off all non-essential notifications for less drain on the battery. Limiting location services to only kick in when an app is actively being used both maintains your privacy, and your battery! ## Trust COMPANYNAME to Ensure Your Business IT Works as Well as Possible Give us a call at PHONENUMBER to find out what our managed IT services can do to improve your work processes! 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