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Quickly drain the battery of your Android or iPhone
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Want to drain the battery on your phone? If you want to get your phone's battery down to 0% before giving it a charge, you can turn on the flashlight, disable auto-locking, boost your screen brightness, or do a number of other tricks that are guaranteed to drain your battery. No matter the reason, this wikiHow article will teach you the fastest ways to drain your phone battery without ruining it forever.
Things You Should Know
- The fastest way to drain your phone battery is to turn on the flashlight.
- Disable automatic screen lock and boost your screen's brightness to the maximum.
- You can also use graphically intensive apps and games, launch lots of apps that use your location, and enable sounds and vibrations.
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Tips
- These tricks may not drain your battery very quickly if you only do a few of them, so make sure to do as many as possible. The more steps you take to consume battery power, the faster your phone battery will drain.Thanks
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- I've found that turning your volume up all the way and playing music super loud drains my phone battery really quickly.
- Turn bluetooth on, but don't connect to anything. This will also help drain the battery super fast!
- Apps that use your location (Google Maps, Pokemon Go, etc.) are great at draining battery.
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Warnings
- If your phone gets too hot while draining the battery, it's better to close some apps and give your phone a break than to proceed. Otherwise, your phone could overheat and crash.Thanks
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References
- ↑ https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/adjust-screen-timeout/
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202613
- ↑ https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00087643/
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207092
- ↑ https://www.samsung.com/latin_en/support/mobile-devices/how-to-activate-my-location-and-change-settings-for-location-permissions/
- ↑ https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-do-i-set-my-samsung-galaxy-device-to-vibrate
- ↑ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3458864.3467682
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210332
- ↑ https://www.samsung.com/latin_en/support/mobile-devices/how-to-configure-dark-mode-on-your-galaxy-device/
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