Why Shouldn't You Charge Your Cell Phone Overnight?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Cell phones have become an essential part of everyone's life. These devices have become the best assistants for the multiple occupations of our daily life, therefore, when we see that the battery level is reaching 0% we feel a small chill of terror invading our body.

To start the day with the cell phone fully charged, many of us decided to leave it connected to the power all night. Be careful !, because this practice could be reducing the life and durability of the battery, we will tell you why.

A report recently shared by Time magazine on its website shares that smartphones use lithium batteries, which means that they recharge quickly, but at the same time, their charge hardly lasts more than a day., depending on the use that is given to the mobile device.

As added in the report, a cell phone does not need more than two hours to achieve a full charge, so leaving it connected for an entire night is not beneficial for the battery. The reason is that the capacity of the battery decreases with each charge cycle that is carried out, that is to say that the longer the device is connected, the more the battery life decreases.

"If you think about it, charging your cell phone while you sleep results in it being connected around three or four months a year … this process inevitably reduces the capacity of the battery," said Hatem Zeine, co-founder of a company specialized in chargers..

Despite the fact that after the first year of battery life it is inevitable that their capacity begins to decrease, here are some of the tips that technology experts give to preserve their durability:

1. Do not wait for the phone to reach a state of 0% charge, the ideal is to connect it when it is at 35% or 40%.

2. Disconnect it once it has completed charging.

2. Remove any protector the phone has while it is charging.

3. Avoid exposing it to high temperatures.