Battery drains fast on Z Flip 7

[Jesenia79]

I have the new zflip 7. And I'm realizing that my battery drains fast. Now I am coming from being an iPhone user, so it might be me getting use to this. But was wondering if its a normal occurrence. Or any suggestion that can help. Thanks.

[CEParsons · Accepted solution]

Galaxy devices have an adaptive battery feature which uses machine learning to optimize battery life. The first few weeks of usage will be rough until the phone learns your usage patterns.

[Jesenia79]

Wow I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know.

[CEParsons]

To further extend battery life, you can adjust settings like the screen refresh rate (though the smoothness of adaptive refresh is worth the battery hit, imo) and changing your performance profile from Standard to Light, or turn on power saving mode as needed.

[Jesenia79]

Yes I did switch from standard to light. And yes the power saving is on. The other I'll look into it right now and make sure its good.

[CEParsons]

As a side note, power saving will disable the adaptive refresh rate, so your display will not look quite as smooth when power saving is on.

If you are coming from a non-pro iPhone, you probably won't notice this as base model iPhones do not have high refresh displays.

[Jesenia79]

Which one do you suggest i stay with? Power saving or adaptive fresh?

[CEParsons]

I personally keep the adaptive refresh rate turned on and use a routine to turn on power saving when my battery falls below 15%. I only use power saving when my battery is low.

No point in a big beautiful display if you don't use it to its full potential!

[Jesenia79]

Ok got it. Thank you.

[bobtheboulder]

Unfortunately android is prone to worse standby time because of background tasks handled differently than ios. Even with all the help of machine learning and turning things off im barely able to get as good as a standby drain as my iphone. If you get 4-10% loss over 8 hours of not touching your phone thats considered normal.