SAMSUNG owners are hailing a new ‘lifesaving’ trick to preserve their battery life while they sleep.
It’s a must-know if you frequently forget to plug your phone in overnight – or, if you don’t charge your handset overnight because you know it degrades your battery in the long-term.
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Phone expert @_technicallyalex on TikTok revealed the ‘sleeping’ trick to his followers.
“If you’re anything like me… you sometimes forget to plug your phone in at night to charge and then you end up waking up and your battery is really low and you’ve got to get running and you have no time to charge,” said Alex.
“I’m going to show you a really simple routine that you can enable to save you as much battery as possible.
“So, at least you’re waking up with a little bit more juice in the morning.”
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The trick requires Samsung’s Routine feature, which is available on these devices: Galaxy S10, S20, S21, S22, S23, Note10, Note20, A52, Z Fold, and Z Flip series phones.
To set it up, either follow the steps in the video, or the written instructions below.
Open Settings > Modes and Routines > tap the plus icon ‘+’ to create a new routine.
You want to build your routine inside the If section – this means the routine will be triggered by a certain stimuli.
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In this section, scroll down to Time Period and select a start time and end time.
“The start time should be when you go to sleep and the end time should be when you wake up,” Alex explained.
“We’re also going to select this to repeat every single day of the week.”
Once that’s completed, tap Done to finalise the first part of the new routine.
Then you want to add a second If condition via the green ‘+’ symbol.
Search for the Charging Status tab and select Not Charging and then Done.
Next, move over to the Then section and press ‘+’.
Search for Power Saving and make sure it’s set to On, then tap Done.
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You can save the routine and give it a name.
“Now every night when you go to sleep if your phone is not charging it will automatically go into power saving mode to save you as much battery as possible,” added Alex.
A brief timeline of the Samsung Galaxy Fold
The foldable gadget had a rocky start to life…
- On May 12 2011, South Korea’s Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology annonced that some of its researchers had created a folding smartphone prototype
- On May 2 2012, Samsung filed a patent application for its folding smart phone design
- In May 2013, Samsung tried to patent its folding phone screen idea
- In November 2013, Samsung announced that it would be bringing folding display devices to the market
- In spring 2016, Samsung was finally working on what we now refer to as the Galaxy Fold
- In October 2018, Samsung finally confirmed that its foldable phone was on the way
- On February 20 2019, Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy Fold with a staggering £1,900 price tag
- On April 15 2019, Samsung started letting high profile technology journalists use the phone but by April 17 lots of them were already complaining about the screen breaking or not working
- On April 22 2019, Samsung had to announce that it was postponing the Samsung Galaxy Fold’s release so that it could address and fix ongoing issues with the folding screen
- On September 6, 2019, Samsung started selling the Galaxy Fold in the UK
- A year later, the company release a follow-up, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2
