Secret Samsung button unlocks three battery settings everyone should turn on if you’re always running out of charge

MILLIONS of Samsung phones have a special button to boost your battery life – but it’s easy to miss.

Tapping it will unlock three settings that can help you squeeze more juice from your Samsung.

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A phone’s battery life depends on many things, including the size of the cell and the strain your phone’s software puts on it.

But the way you use your phone and the settings you choose can make a difference, and there are some tricks that you might have overlooked.

“Galaxy phones are designed to offer high performance and excellent battery life,” Samsung explained.

“However, battery life depends on how the battery is used and different devices have different battery life.”

Millions of newer Samsung Galaxy phone models have some special Power Saving features.

UNLOCK SAMSUNG GALAXY POWER-SAVING FEATURES

Before getting to this, you’ll first want to check your basic power-saving settings.

Swipe down from the top of the screen to bring up the Quick Panel.

Then tap and hold on the Power mode icon, which should feature a small battery icon.

This will bring up a Power Saving menu with some options for limiting features on your phone.

For instance, you can:

• Turn off Always On Display
• Limit CPU speed to 70%
• Decrease brightness by 10%
• Turn off 5G
• Limit apps and Home Screen

But there’s another page that you might have missed.

Go into Settings > Battery and Device Care > Battery.

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Then select the option called More Battery Settings – you might need to scroll down slightly to see it.

Here you’ll find three settings that can affect your battery.

According to Samsung, they are:

• Adaptive battery: Limits the battery usage for apps that you do not often use.
• Processing speed: This can be adjusted between Optimised, High and Maximum. Using Optimised takes less strain on the battery and saves power.
• Protect battery: This limits the maximum charge on your phone to 85%, increasing the lifespan of your battery, meaning your charge will last longer.

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The first two aim to improve your battery life on a day-to-day basis.

And the third is designed to protect your battery’s health.

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries like the ones in smartphones (including Samsung Galaxy devices and Apple’s iPhone) degrade over time.

That means they’ll hold less charge over time compared to when they were new.

Batteries degrade faster depending on your charging habits: for instance, it’s not good to keep a battery constantly at maximum charge.

So by limiting the maximum charge on your phone, it’ll keep the cell less “stressed” – and hopefully mean you can hold on to your Samsung phone for longer.

This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk