13 tips to extend the lifespan of your phone battery

Lauren Stephen
11 min readAug 23, 2018

How to preserve a smartphone’s fastest-degrading component

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

It’s harder to replace your phone’s lithium ion battery than it is to treat it right in the first place. Many smartphones don’t provide easy user access to their batteries. That includes all iPhones and many flagship Android phones from brands such as Samsung. Official battery replacements are often expensive and…

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Lauren Stephen

Writer, editor, technical writer, part-time lecturer, and semi-professional stand-up comic based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.