Notebook: How to extend battery life

When using mobile devices, battery life plays a major role. Usually, this is determined by the built-in battery. However, you can influence the battery life with various measures when using your device. The aim is to reduce energy consumption.

How to extend the battery life of your notebook

If you frequently use a notebook, it is worthwhile to save energy by taking various measures and thus extend the battery life. Usually, only a few steps are necessary for this.

1. If it is not so bright around you, such as in a building, you can reduce the maximum brightness of your screen. Most of the time, this is quite enough to extend your battery life a bit.
2. Also, make sure to disconnect external devices that you don't need. These require, even if you do not use them directly, energy and thus reduce the battery life.
3. Also various lighting on your device, such as a backlight of the keyboard, require energy. You should therefore always turn them off when you want to save energy and do not necessarily need the lighting.
4. Mostly on the smartphone, Bluetooth is often turned on. You should also turn off this function.
5. Another option is to use the power saving mode of your device. You set this in the control panel under "Power Options". Here you just have to activate the option "Save energy". Your operating system will then try to manage the various background processes differently.