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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 applications and features. You can also use Battery Care to increase the battery's lifetime. Background power-saving features are activated by default to help you further reduce battery consumption, and additional power-saving modes are available to help you reduce battery consumption when necessary. Power-saving features lower the priority of certain non-essential device functions. If you do not want an application to be affected, you can make it exempt in the Power-saving exceptions menu. Phone calls and SMS are not affected. Note System updates may change the power-saving features available on your device. To review your battery consumption 1 Find and tap Settings > Battery to view the estimated remaining battery percentage and battery time. 2 Tap Advanced for more details about battery usage. To view battery consumption for applications 1 Find and tap Settings > Apps & notifications. 2 Select an application and review its battery consumption under Advanced > Battery. General usage tips to improve battery performance The following tips can help you improve battery performance: • Lower the screen brightness level, see Screen settings on page 54. • 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. • Use a Wi-Fi network instead of roaming when abroad. Roaming is scanning for your home network and puts additional demands on your battery as your device must transmit with a higher output power, see Wi-Fi on page 49. • Change the synchronization settings for your email, calendar and contacts. • 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 Notifications on page 34. • Turn off the location-sharing permission for an application, see Application settings on page 55. • Uninstall applications that you are not using. • 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 1 Find and tap Settings > Apps & notifications > Advanced > Special app access > Power-saving feature. 2 Follow the on-screen instructions, and select the applications to which the power- saving feature is applied. 40 Internet version. For personal use only.

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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 applications and features. You can also use
Battery Care to increase the battery’s lifetime. Background power-saving features
are activated by default to help you further reduce battery consumption, and
additional power-saving modes are available to help you reduce battery
consumption when necessary.
Power-saving features lower the priority of certain non-essential device functions.
If you do not want an application to be affected, you can make it exempt in the
Power-saving exceptions menu. Phone calls and SMS are not affected.
Note
System updates may change the power-saving features available on your device.
To review your battery consumption
1
Find and tap
Settings
>
Battery
to view the estimated remaining battery
percentage and battery time.
2
Tap
Advanced
for more details about battery usage.
To view battery consumption for applications
1
Find and tap
Settings
>
Apps & notifications
.
2
Select an application and review its battery consumption under
Advanced
>
Battery
.
General usage tips to improve battery performance
The following tips can help you improve battery performance:
•
Lower the screen brightness level, see
Screen settings
on page 54.
•
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.
•
Use a Wi-Fi network instead of roaming when abroad. Roaming is scanning for
your home network and puts additional demands on your battery as your device
must transmit with a higher output power, see
Wi-Fi
on page 49.
•
Change the synchronization settings for your email, calendar and contacts.
•
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
Notifications
on page 34.
•
Turn off the location-sharing permission for an application, see
Application
settings
on page 55.
•
Uninstall applications that you are not using.
•
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
1
Find and tap
Settings
>
Apps & notifications
>
Advanced
>
Special app access
>
Power-saving feature
.
2
Follow the on-screen instructions, and select the applications to which the power-
saving feature is applied.
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Internet version. For personal use only.