The latest Google Pixels have been receiving the latest updates for years, but how does the battery last as long as possible? Use this setting for this.
Google Pixel optimization for charging works like this
There is a good chance that you have been using your smartphone for more than a year. You don’t want the battery to deteriorate significantly after two years. Google has a handy function for this in the settings app: charge up to 80 percent to extend battery life.
It may sound strange that charging less leads to a longer battery life. However, it is about long-term battery savings. A battery ‘wears out’ every time it charges and discharges.
Above 80 percent it wears out even faster. To prevent this, Google has released the ‘Optimize for Charging’ feature. If you choose ‘Limit to 80%’, your phone will no longer fully charge. Although you will compromise on daily battery life, your phone will last longer in the long term.
This is how you turn on ‘Limit to 80%’ on your Google Pixel
- Open the Settings app on your Google Pixel smartphone;
- Scroll until you see ‘Battery’ and click on it;
- Then choose ‘Optimization for charging’;
- Toggle the switch next to ‘Use charging optimization’;
- Then select ‘Limit to 80%’ at the bottom of the screen.
Good to know: the function does not work if your phone is switched off. Do you turn off your device completely at night? Then it simply charges to 100 percent.
In addition, your Pixel may be fully charging, and you may have activated ‘Limit to 80%’. Your phone does this to recalibrate the battery capacity. Read more about that in our previous article.
Since the December 2024 update, the feature is available on more Pixel smartphones. Don’t see it in your settings app yet? Then see if you can update your smartphone via ‘System’, ‘Software updates’ and then ‘System updates’. Click on this and your phone will check whether it can download the latest security update.
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Source: www.androidplanet.nl
