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- Everybody, David and David here
from PayetteForward.com
and UpPhone.com
and in this video,
we're going to tell you about
some Google pixel battery tips.
- And there are just a few tips
that we gonna mention,
and it's going to save a ton of battery life.
So the first one has to do with 5G.
- Yep. So let's open the settings app.
swipe down from the top of the screen,
swipe down again
and just tap on that gear icon.
And I'm going to tap on network and internet.
Going to tap on mobile network
and then tap on preferred network type.
- Right. So 5G is recommended
and if you live in an area
with good 5G coverage,
then by all means, leave this on.
But if you don't live in an area
with good 5G coverage,
I recommend selecting LTE.
First off, because LTE can be faster than 5G
If you have a better LTE signal.
And second, anyone who's been in areas
where there isn't good cell phone coverage
knows that, when there isn't good coverage,
your battery drains quicker.
So if there isn't good 5G coverage
and your phone is trying to connect to it,
your battery is going to drain a lot faster.
So just choose LTE.
When you don't good 5G coverage here.
Just choose LTE.
- Yeah. So next one go into privacy settings
under the Google pixel,
tap back and go back to the main page
of the settings app,
scroll down and tap privacy.
We're gonna tab advanced.
And we want to talk about
usage and diagnostic data.
- This is about sending data
to app developers and to Google
about the way that you use your phones,
that they can improve their products.
Is a little bit of cellular data
also uses your battery
to be collecting this data
in the background.
Lets let them improve their own products.
Just turn it right off.
- Yes, tap switch,
turn it off, well done.
We're gonna go back to the main page
of the settings app
and talk about some of location settings
and how locations Services
can be a really significant battery drain
for a lot of people.
- Right. We're not crazy.
We're not going to tell you
to turn off GPS in your phone
because that's what makes the phone so great.
But if you're deliberate
and intentional about the settings
and the apps
that you want to have access to your location,
you could save a lot of Battery life.
- Yep. Let's tap app access to location
and look at your apps,
especially allowed all the time.
Do these apps
need to have your location all the time,
even when you're not actively using them?
- Right
- And most of the time
the answer is going to be no.
- So even Amazon, Facebook, Google,
do these apps
need to have access to your location all the time,
even when you're not using them?
Probably not.
And some apps
you might not want to allow
to have your location any of the time,
even when you're using it.
But these allowed all the time
are major battery drainers.
- Yes. So tap on Facebook for example,
and I'm gonna set it to allow
only while it using the app.
- Right. So ask every time to be annoying, deny,
you're not going to be able to tag your photos
with your location,
but allow while using the app,
everything still works.
- Yep. Let's go back
to location settings
under Google pixel.
And we're going to tap on wifi and bluetooth scanning.
This allows your pixel
to scan for wifi and Bluetooth
Even when wifi
and Bluetooth aren't on.
- There are a lot of forum posts
about these two settings in particular
as being big battery drainers,
turn them both off
to save a lot of battery life.
- Yeah. And you'll still be able
to connect to wifi
and your bluetooth devices.
It's not like you're just turning those features off,
you're turning off the scanning portion.
So tap, turn it off, tap turn it off.
Next thing we're talking about, is dark mode.
It looks cool, and it could help save battery life.
- Right.
- Win, win, let's go back to the main page
out of the pixel settings app.
And we gonna to scroll up
and tap on display.
Let's tap the switch next to dark theme.
- Wow!
- Look at that.
- Yeah. I mean, it makes sense, right?
This is one of those new-brainer settings
where the screen is a lot darker.
That's less power.
- Next. We're going to go into the battery section
of the settings app
and talk about a couple of settings there.
I'll tap back
and I'll tap the battery.
One above display,
The first one is adaptive battery.
Go ahead and tap on that.
To extend the battery life,
adaptive battery may reduce performance
and background activity.
- So this is kind of automatically
doing some of the things
that we recommend doing manually,
but this can also help.
- Yeah. Let's have that switch, turn it on.
- Right.
- And before we leave the battery section
of the settings app,
let's just go back
and let's talk about battery saver a little bit.
- Yeah. I'm not a big believer in battery saver,
even though some people
just turn it on
and then sort of forget about it.
Because if you optimize the settings on your phone,
you can actually sometimes do better
than just having battery saver turned out
and not taking a look at anything else.
And battery saver
is kind of like this
catch all of thing that can actually
negatively impact some of the apps
that do want to have access to your location.
I just avoid it if possible.
- That's especially true
for extreme battery saver,
which turns off even more
and it's...
- If you need a battery saver,
extreme battery saver
is a little extreme.
But it works
- Next. We're going to turn on battery optimization
for all your apps.
This actually doesn't live in the battery settings
for some reason.
So let's go back to the main page
of your Google pixel settings
and tap on apps and notifications,
tap advanced,
scroll down and tap special app access,
and then tap on battery optimization.
So here we have a list of my apps
that are currently not optimized.
And I was going to scroll down
Facebook, not optimized.
Facebook is a very significant battery draining app.
You probably want to optimize
this app specifically,
for best battery life.
- Right
- So gonna go ahead and tap on that
and just tap on optimize, tap done.
It'll no longer appear in your list
of not optimized apps.
However, you can also just tap on, not optimize
and then select all apps.
And then you can get all your apps.
We'll see that some are optimized battery use, some aren't.
Good way to see which ones are and which aren't.
- Right. And if you were
to go into the Facebook app,
all of a sudden
and you're to notice that
it was too slow
or that things weren't loading as fast
and it was a big pain in the but for you,
come back in here
and just turn this back on
or turn battery optimization off.
But if you don't really notice a difference,
then you're just going to save battery
in the background.
So just bear in mind,
we're not commanding you
to do any of these things.
Just giving the option,
especially for apps like Facebook.
This can save a lot of battery.
- Next we're going to talk about
restricting background activity.
Apps can sometimes run in the background,
other than Google pixel
and just use a lot of battery life.
- Right. And this is kind of
a convoluted one to address,
but we're going to walk you through.
- All right. So let's go back
to the main page of apps notifications.
- Right
- Tap on to see all number of apps,
tap on an app, app on advanced
and then it tap battery.
Here we are, manage battery usage.
You see background restriction right there.
App can use battery in the background.
And this is a gaming app.
If you have a lot of games in your phone,
you don't want them all running in the background
of your Google pixel all the time, draining battery.
- Yeah. You never know which ones
are actually gonna be the biggest offenders,
especially if it's a third-party app,
not developed by a really big developer
can cause problems.
- Lets tap on background restriction,
to save battery stop bricks and balls
from using battery
in the background.
This app may not work properly
and notifications may be delayed.
Just tap restrict.
I don't need to have bricks and balls
send me notifications anyway.
As you said earlier,
this process is pretty convoluted,
that's what we have recommended
turning on battery optimization for all apps.
And it kind of
reduces the need to go one by one.
And through this Kind of loaded process,
- Right. If this was the first tip
you would've stopped watching right away.
- Yes
- So like, anyway,
thanks for sticking with us
through this one
because it is kind of a pain.
- Yeah. Thanks for watching this video.
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