10 Tips How to Maintain Your Smartphone Device Properly
Follow Battery Health and Safety Guidelines
Although it’s understandable if you don’t understand how batteries operate, you should learn how to care for the batteries in your phone and other electronic devices so that you can prolong their useful lives.
The following are the top five recommendations for maintaining battery health:
- Try to stay away from using your phone in hot or harsh weather conditions. Your phone should ideally stay at a temperature of between 0 and 35 °C (32 to 95 °F) at all times.
- Avoid using your phone while it is charging because doing so adds to the heat your fast charger is already producing.
- Avoid wireless charging as it produces unnecessary heat; using a regular wired wall charger is the best way to charge your phone.
- Keep your battery between 20 and 80 percent charged or drained at all times. The more imbalance a battery has, the more quickly it deteriorates.
- Avoid overnight charging since a long charge cycle is more harmful for battery health than short charge cycles throughout the day.
Avoid becoming wet or exposed to dust
When possible, try to limit your exposure to dust and water. Sometimes the harm caused by these factors is not immediately apparent; rather, it only becomes apparent when it is too late and you are unsure of the exact problem with your phone.
Use a Case and Screen Protector
Make sure you have a case for your new phone before doing anything else when you receive one. The smooth back of a new smartphone may feel good to many people, but if it cracks, you won’t like it much.
If you want to maintain the condition of your phone for as long as possible, a screen protector is still another necessity. Phone displays that aren’t protected with a screen protector may become scratched, cracked, or stained with fingerprints.
You can further secure your phone by using a screen protector. Even though the protector may have cracks and scratches, if it’s a good one, these defects won’t show on the screen of your phone behind.
Screen protectors can be made of a few different sorts of materials, including:
- Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) materials are inexpensive, light, and thin, but they offer the least level of scratch and impact protection.
- Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) is a more flexible substance that, although it requires users to remove air bubbles after application, has a finish that is rather durable.
- The best option is certainly Tempered glass. Tempered glass is thicker and stronger than plastic protectors, and will mean your screen is more resistant to scratches and other visible damage.
Keep it clean
Keeping your phone clean is vital both for your health and the health of your device. Phones are ten times dirtier than toilet seats, so you’ll definitely want to know how to clean away all those nasty germs! Not to mention, a build-up of dust can also impact your phone’s performance.
Follow our steps to clean your phone properly, including what products to use, how to treat different materials, and what not to do while cleaning your device.
Maintain app and system updates
On both iPhones and Android devices, your phone will ask you to download and install app and system updates. On iPhones, the system update is currently iOS 14 and on Android devices, it’s Android 10.
Keeping your system updated applies security features, bug fixes, and more, to keep your phone functioning at its highest capacity. If you choose not to download these, not only will you be at more risk of catching a virus, but your smartphone will start to run slower.
Likewise, applications will occasionally request to be updated from either the Apple Store or Google Play Store. Updating these means they will run more smoothly, and will be free of any bugs that were initially slowing down the app.
The more you pack onto your phone, the slower it could become. If you have a number of apps still on your phone that you don’t use anymore, you should delete them to free up space and stop your device from updating them or keeping them running in the background.
Expand storage
If your smartphone allows it, you could install an external SD card to increase your phone’s storage. By doing this, you can free up your device’s internal memory, which will likely result in faster performance.
Avoid extreme temperatures
Too much heat or too much cold can negatively impact your smartphone’s performance by damaging your battery. Batteries do not survive well in extreme temperature conditions, and should be turned off and left to cool down if they get too hot.
This is also why you should avoid overcharging your phone, as it can become too hot.
Avoid water
Even if your phone is waterproof, it doesn’t mean it can survive a deep dive for too long. Most waterproof ratings (referred to as IP ratings) only allow a smartphone to be submerged under one to three metres of water for up to 30 minutes at a time.
IP68 is the most common IP rating, but you can find your phone’s waterproof rating on the back of the case or by searching your model online.
If the worst should happen and you do drop your phone in water for longer than recommended, there are a few things you can do to revive it.
Delete unused apps
As with the unused apps, the more you pile onto your phone’s storage, the more stress you place on it to remain speedy. Clearing this will allow you to store more files, photos, apps and videos without hindering the overall performance of your smartphone.
Clear the Cache
Applications may leave unnecessary files in the cache when you install them or when you launch them. These consume RAM that could be used for other purposes. From time to time, delete these files. You can do this on both Android and iOS. ge.
