Samsung’s Galaxy phones once again reign supreme over the vast fleet of Android devices. They do this through a personalization layerOne UI 6 -also One UI 6.1 in deployment-, with many interesting features, good performance and a fairly high level of customization.
Although the Galaxy AI features take center stage, the Korean manufacturer’s layer hides some essential secrets: the battery improvement, the complete video editor, the automation function or the magic eraser are just a few examples. Like those hidden settings you can dominate with your applications so that they do not exceed battery consumption and memory.
Let apps let our Galaxy sleep
Mobile applications, as traditionally happens on computers, maintain active background services, normally for its correct and optimal functioning, although this is not always the case. Anyway, these only activate these processes when the user has executed them, always taking into account a few exceptions that start when our mobile phone is turned on.
Fortunately, Samsung offers us a few settings with which we can master them all, and limit energy consumption and the memory abuse that many of these applications generate. This feature will be familiar to you if you have tried alternatives from other manufacturers such as Xiaomi.
To access it, we go to “Settings”, then we go to the “Battery” section, and finally we touch the “Background usage limits” option. At this location, there is a switch to make inactive applications that we do not use
- “Applications without automatic sleep»: by entering and pressing “+”, we will add to the list those applications that will not have permission to start when we turn on the phone, that is, they will not run automatically .
- “Inactivated apps»: Marking an application as inactive will cause us to restrict part of its background processes. Be careful not to add messaging applications like WhatsApp here: you could prevent their notifications from reaching you.
- “Applications still inactive”: the most aggressive mode, those added here will only work if you open them. As soon as we change applications, its processes will disappear. Again, only add those that consume too much power here.
Control which applications are abusing memory
We find something similar if we go to the “Memory” section, which is in “Settings” > “Device maintenance”. In this we will see the RAM available at any time, and with a simple button this will allow us to free it from the applications that occupy it.
A little further down we find the “Excluded applications” option, a list similar to that of the previous section but which focuses on restricting background processes. applications that remain active at all times
It is worth mentioning that if you suffer battery problems and you don’t get to the end of the day, maybe they come from faults that you can check. Consider keeping your cell phone away from its worst enemy, as well as reviewing certain aspects that will quickly reduce the percentage.
This way we will be able to control the abnormal battery consumption, which you will probably notice when you have many applications installed in the memory of your Samsung Galaxy. Fortunately, it is possible to keep them under control: now we know how to act.
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