Properly charging your smartphone is essential for maintaining the health of your battery, and ensuring better battery life and increased safety in the long run. Simply plugging your phone in as soon as you get home and leaving the charger on until you leave in the morning is not the right solution. Here are tips to get the most out of your smartphone's battery:

1. Don't let your phone overheat
Heat is perhaps the worst enemy of lithium-ion batteries, the kind most smartphones use. You should take basic precautions like not keeping your phone on the dash board of the car where it will get a lot of direct sunlight, you should also avoid charging your phone while playing graphically intensive games, because that will also raise the temperature of the phone and harm the battery.

The ideal charging temperature is between 20-30 degrees Celsius.

2. Don't use your phone while charging
In general, avoid using the phone while it is charging. This is called parasitic charging and this kind of usage can apparently be quite damaging. Small amounts of usage load stop the battery from entering a full charging cycle, damaging the battery.

3. Don't use a fake charger
Use only the company's own chargers - this is particularly important if your phone supports quick charging, high capacity chargers can quickly charge the phone up to 70 percent capacity, but can also damage it in the process, if not properly optimised.

4. Zero and 100 are no magic numbers
There's no need to fully charge your new phone when you buy it these days, since the battery is usually charged when you get it and you don't have to charge the battery up to 100 percent all the time either; you can just start using it and run the battery down before bringing it to a full charge again.

On the other hand, you shouldn't let the battery go down to zero either.

Don't let your battery fully die if you can avoid it, I recommend charging it when it gets to around 10 percent charge left. This lengthens the life of the battery."

5. Don't leave the phone on the charger all night
While charging your phone overnight will probably not damage it, there is a chance that it is hurting your battery life, and since you don't need to have the phone at 100 percent at the end of each charge, you're better off unplugging it at night.

Following the tips above will help, and will certainly keep you safer when using the phone.

Thanks Op

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