The Gigaset Battery Save Initiative: equipped for a long battery life

Do you charge your battery overnight? Most people do. However, the permanent power supply can damage your battery in the long term. If your smartphone does not have an adjustable charging limit, it is advisable to charge it during the day or in the evening and then disconnect it from the charging cable once the battery has reached 70% to 90% capacity.

If you play games or watch films on your smartphone, you should avoid charging it at the same time, since the display and processor activity will heat up the device.

The brighter a display is set, the more power a device consumes. To save battery power, one thing that can already be of great help is adjusting the screen brightness. The display is often set very bright, even though this is not at all necessary. In the evening or in low light, it is sufficient to adjust the screen brightness to a low level. When automatic display brightness is enabled, the display's backlight will be adjusted to the ambient brightness, meaning that the display is only illuminated to the necessary extent. This is not only reduces strain on your eyes, but also preserves your smartphone's battery life.

To conserve battery life, it can help to disconnect your smartphone from the Internet. If you are on the move but want to check your emails, for example, you don't need to have your Wi-Fi® connection switched on. Otherwise, the smartphone will constantly search for a Wi-Fi® connection and consume power unnecessarily. If you don't need the Internet at all, it's a good idea to turn off your mobile data as well. This prevents apps from updating automatically or constantly accessing the Internet.

Some smartphone apps use more battery power than others. In the settings under "Battery", you can check the power consumption of your applications and decide whether an app is really needed, restrict its functionality or even uninstall it altogether. Games drain the most power from smartphones. But voice assistants also continuously consume power, since the smartphone is constantly waiting for a voice input. If you deactivate this function, you will save additional battery life!

Even if you close certain apps, they will continue to run in the background. Examples include email programs that continue to access the Internet even while they are closed to check for any new emails. These background activities unnecessarily burden your smartphone's battery. In the settings for each app, you can specify if you do not want the application to continue running in the background. This way, you won't completely forego use of your mobile data while you're on the move, but still prevent some apps from accessing the Internet.

The automatic synchronisation of features such as an email account or a weather app will continually burden the battery even when it is in standby mode. By turning off the automatic synchronisation, apps will only synchronise when required.
Automatic updates also consume battery power because these apps access the Internet and run in the background. As an alternative, you can configure automatic updates so that they only take place over a Wi-Fi® connection when you are at home and your smartphone can quickly be recharged. Or, you can switch these automatic updates off completely and instead decide for yourself when an app should be updated.

Many smartphones have a power-saving mode that allows you to disable all "superfluous" features such as most apps or even LTE data. Another option is to assign individual apps to power-saving mode. If you have either of these options enabled, people will still be able to reach you.
If you want to be completely undisturbed by your smartphone, you can enable airplane mode. The network, mobile data, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and GPS functions will be switched off, meaning that no app can communicate in any way with the outside world. However, features such as your camera and music player will remain active and can still be used.