Battery and Power Management
Your device has an embedded battery. To get the most use from it, keep track of the
power consumed by different apps and features. Background power-saving features are
activated by default to help you reduce battery consumption, and additional power
saving modes are available to help you reduce battery consumption further when
necessary.
Power-saving features lower the priority for certain non-essential device functions, such
as higher-grade image performance, network activities such as location services, app
synchronization and background Wi-Fi scanning. If you do not want an application to be
affected, you can exempt it in the Battery Optimization menu.
System updates may change the power saving features available on your device.
To View Battery Consumption, Estimated Time, and Power-Saving Tips
1
From your
Home screen
, tap .
2
Find and tap
Settings
>
Battery
. An overview appears showing the battery
percentage and an estimated battery time.
3
Tap
SHOW BATTERY USAGE
to view a list of features and services that have
consumed battery power since the last charging cycle. Tap an item to get
information on how to reduce its battery consumption.
To View Battery Consumption For Applications
1
From your
Home screen
, tap .
2
Find and tap
Settings
>
Apps
.
3
Select an application and review its battery consumption under
Battery usage
.
General Usage Tips to Improve Battery Performance
The following tips can help you improve battery performance:
•
Lower the screen brightness level, see
•
Turn off Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi, and location services when you don't need these
features.
•
Turn off your device or use Airplane mode if you are in an area with no or low
network coverage. Otherwise, your device repeatedly scans for available
networks, and this consumes power.
•
Change the synchronization settings for your email, calendar, and contacts, see
Synchronizing with Online Accounts
•
Check the applications that have a high battery consumption and consider the
battery saving tips provided on your device for these applications.
•
Change the notification level for an application, see
on page 25.
•
Turn off the location-sharing permission for an application, see
•
Uninstall applications that you are not using, see
on page 21.
•
Use a Sony original handsfree device to listen to music. Handsfree devices
consume less battery than your device's loudspeakers.
•
Restart your device every now and then.
To make specific applications exempt from optimization
You can make applications exempt from being optimized by Doze and App Standby.
1
From your Homescreen, tap .
2
Find and tap
Settings
>
Battery usage
.
3
Tap the and select
Battery optimization
. You will see a list of applications that are
not optimized.
4
To add or remove applications from this list, tap
Not optimized
>
All apps
and
select an application from the list to edit its optimization settings.
5
The list of applications that are not optimized will get updated according to your
settings. These settings are valid for both Doze and App Standby.
You can also configure
Battery optimization
from the
Apps
menu by tapping .
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