OnePlus 6: How to Increase the Battery Life

One of the problems that can most affect users with their mobiles is when the battery is not enough to meet the needs. The OnePlus 6 is one of the phones that suffer the most to reach the end of the day, having to resort to an extra charge in most cases. Although in Oxygen OS we are going to find several options that allow us to improve the battery and obtain more time of use.

The 3,300 mAh that this OnePlus 6 has is not enough to cope with the consumption of the 6.28-inch AMOLED screen, even after having significantly improved consumption after receiving Android 10 along with Oxygen OS 10, the latest version of the company’s own personalization layer. We will show you what the reasons are and how we can make the OnePlus 6’s battery last longer.

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Check which apps or services are draining the battery

Before starting to apply changes to our OnePlus 6, we will have to know what is really affecting the battery of our mobile. To do this we have to go to Settings> Battery and click on the “View usage details” button. We will get all the information about the applications, but if we also touch in the upper right corner, we will see more data on the screen or the system.

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After having verified that the consumption falls within normal limits and that there is no application that has consumed too much in relation to the time of use, we can continue with the optimization. In case of finding any strange parameter in one of the apps, we can try to download an alternative app and uninstall the one that is causing us problems.

Keep your mobile and applications updated

One of the main reasons that may be affecting the battery is that we are not up to date. The manufacturer OnePlus keeps your phones updated progressively with security patches and corrections , which we will have to install by going to Settings> System> System update and install if we have any pending. We must do the same with the applications, entering the Google Play store, clicking on “My Applications” and updating all the apps.

Learn how to optimize and improve the battery of the OnePlus 6

Among the many added features that we found in Oxygen OS for the OnePlus 6, are the optimization options. Going within the settings to the battery section and tapping on ” Battery optimization “, we will find the full list of apps that we have. In order to improve the battery of the OnePlus 6 we can resort to this advanced option where we will be able to change the intelligent control for the option to optimize.

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We recommend following these steps only in applications that have shown power consumption abnormalities . If we use it in messaging applications like WhatsApp, we could stop receiving notifications.

OnePlus smart battery features

Among all the tools we have in Oxygen OS for the OnePlus 6, there are three that can be decisive for us to improve the performance of our mobile. We will explain each of them, allowing you to enjoy an extra energy to reach the end of the day.

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  • Smart battery and idle optimization : Head to Settings> Battery> Battery optimization and tap on the three points at the top to enter advanced optimization. It activates both the smart battery and the optimization at rest so that during the night and throughout the day the system is able to decide for us.
  • RAM acceleration : We can think that this option will have a different result, but the truth is that it will prevent apps that we don’t need from being kept open and therefore we will improve the results. We can activate it in Settings> System> RAM acceleration.
  • Activate the dark mode : The AMOLED screen of the OnePlus 6 allows us to get more out of the dark mode, turning off the pixels we don’t need and reducing consumption. To activate it, go to Settings> Personalization> Preset theme and change it to dark tinted.

Battery saver always ready to help

One of the tips that can not be missed when it comes to saving battery is its own functionality, which in the OnePlus 6 can be very helpful when we leave home or we will not have access to a plug. We can activate it manually from the shortcuts bar or, program it so that when we have a certain percentage of battery activated.

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We can do this from Settings> Battery> Battery saving> Define a schedule. Activating it will limit the processes in the background , but it will help us not to run out of battery sooner than expected.

Manually manage the tools you don’t need

Instead of resorting to automatic controls, we can also customize in our shortcuts bar everything we want to enable or disable as needed, but this without the previous steps will not be very useful. Just by sliding the bar we can touch the pencil to add all the functions we want. For example, we can deactivate the GPS, NFC or reduce the brightness of the screen to extend and improve the battery of our OnePlus 6 a little more.