Since buying my Galaxy Z Flip 7 last year, I’ve plugged it in to charge before bed and woken up to a fully charged phone. The battery is at 100% every morning, ready for me to take on the day without worrying about running out of juice.\n<\/p>\n
It felt right, that’s the way it should be, right? The convenience of stepping out of the house with a fully charged phone made me forget that having the device sit at 100% charge for six hours overnight was aging the phone’s lithium-ion battery faster than it needed to.\n<\/p>\n
\nDon’t overlook this simple, yet highly effective feature\n<\/p>\n
Samsung has offered a feature for a couple of years now to prevent exactly this. Before Battery protection introduced more precise controls with One UI 7.0, Samsung let you select preset limits to stop charging<\/a>. Enabling the feature is simple enough. Just search for Battery Protection in the Settings app. It’s one toggle that you have to tap on.\n<\/p>\n When enabled, Battery Protection lets you adjust the maximum charging level from 80%, 85%, 90%, and 95%. There’s also an Adaptive protection feature which stops charging at 80% while you’re asleep and finishes charging the device to 100% just before you wake up.\n<\/p>\n This is a particularly useful feature as it simply stops charging early and holds it there, reducing the stress that high charge states put on battery cells over time.\n<\/p>\n