Charge Your Phone Faster

 Procedure to Charge Your Phone Faster With Adaptive Charging

Your phone battery will slowly wear down over time. Here’s how to make sure it stays healthier for longer. Smartphones are continue to get smarter, which that includes how they charge their batteries. Both Android and iOS now come with features along with some good battery care tips, which can maximize the life of your device's battery.

The problem is that the lithium-ion batteries inside our smartphones are chemically aged. They wear down over time, and it's the reason why you won't get the same battery life from your handset after a year as you did when you first got it. You can even check the current health of your battery right now. It's under Battery and device care, Diagnostics, Phone diagnostics and Battery status in Settings on Samsung phones, and under Battery and Battery Health & Charging in Settings on an iPhone.

Certain factors affect how quickly batteries get aged, which includes operating temperature and how much time they spend fully charged—and that's where smart charging comes in. While these features have different names depending on the phone, they all work in more or less the same way. They will monitor your daily habits and delay charging the handset up fully when it thinks you are going to have it connected to power for an extended period of time (overnight, for example, or when you are at the office). 

iPhone

Optimized Charging is enabled by default on iPhones. Open Settings and then choose Battery, which shows you your battery level and phone activity over the last few hours and days. Select Battery Health & Charging, and then Charging Optimization, to control how your phone charges up. You should find that this feature is enabled by default, but you can turn it ON and OFF from this screen. If you are using one of the iPhone 15 models, you'll see the options are Optimized Battery Charging, 80% Limit, and None—that 80 % option is not available in older iPhones. Pick the 80% Limit option if you want to increase your phone battery's lifespan by very rarely fully charging it—while connected to power, the phone will stop charging at 80 %, then start charging again at 75 %. Sometimes, the phone will be allowed to fully charge, to keep battery life estimates accurate.

Google Pixel

Pixel phones show information about how Adaptive Charging works. On Pixel phones, we have what's called Adaptive Charging, which works the same way as Optimized Charging on iPhones. Again, you should find that it's enabled by default, and you'll see a message on the screen when your phone is charging up and Adaptive Charging is enabled. For the betterment of your battery we would recommend keeping Adaptive Charging turned ON, but there might be times when you want to make sure your phone battery is charged up to 100 % as quickly as possible. To find the toggle switch, open Settings and then choose Battery and Adaptive Charging.

Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy phones can limit themselves to an 85 % charge. This smart charging feature is available on Samsung Galaxy phones as well, and in this case it's called Protect battery. It's switched on by default, and in Samsung's case the charging limit is typically set to 85 %—it won't go above this unless you turn the feature OFF. From Settings, go to Battery and device care, Battery, and More battery settings to find the Protect battery toggle switch. In the case of Samsung phones, the feature is not enabled by default, so you  need to turn it on if you want to use it, and there isn't a message on screen telling you when it's been activated.