eWorld Help

All guides Phones and tablets

My phone battery drains too fast

بطارية هاتفي تنفد بسرعة

How to tell a worn battery from an app that is eating it, and what to do about each.

What to do

  1. Check battery health first. On iPhone it is Settings, Battery, Battery Health. Below eighty per cent, the battery is simply worn out and nothing in software will fix it.
  2. If health is fine, look at the battery usage list on the same screen. One app near the top using far more than the others is your answer.
  3. Turn off background refresh for apps that do not need it. Social media, shopping and news apps all poll constantly. Settings, General, Background App Refresh on iPhone.
  4. Check screen brightness and how long the screen stays on. These two use more power than anything else on the phone.
  5. Weak signal drains a battery fast because the phone keeps searching. If it is worst in one building, that is why, and there is not much to do except Wi-Fi calling.

These are the usual causes and the safe order to check them, not a diagnosis of your machine. If a step does not match what you are seeing, stop and ask.