How to stop your cell phone from dying so fast
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Both iPhones and Android phones have various setting options to avoid your phone's battery being completely drained when you're far from a phone charger.
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Both iPhones and Androids are designed to have their background apps refresh periodically by default, which then uses up all your phone's battery life and data. Phone batteries will still have battery life sucked out of them much quicker from having your screen brightness turned up or your cellular connection. Still, it can't hurt to stop apps from refreshing automatically to conserve some of that battery life.