Hey guys what’s up are you worried about your windows 11 laptop battery life you can use some tips to ensure a good battery life on Windows 11?
In this article, you will see 10 tips to increase the battery life of your windows 11 laptop so don’t skip any tips but you are free to not apply any tips you don’t like.
Run Power Troubleshooter
The first thing you should do is run the power troubleshooter on your windows 11.
It will check the issues related to power on your laptop and suggest solutions:
- Click on the start menu and type “troubleshoot settings” open it
- Click on “other troubleshooter” scroll down
- Then click on “run against the power”
Now the troubleshooter will look for issues and resolve them automatically if it can’t it will suggest you make changes you can go for it.
Use Lower Brightness on Battery
The brightness of your screen consumes a lot of battery if you often use your laptop with full brightness it hampers the battery life so you should lower the brightness when on the battery to adjust the brightness you can:
open the quick action panel by clicking here
or by pressing windows, windows plus the button then use the slider to decrease the brightness you can also go to settings then display to adjust the brightness.
Select Best Efficiency Power Mode
If you want to have good battery life on your Windows 11 laptop you should configure the power mode:
- Open settings
- Go to power and battery under the power
- Mode section select best power
- Efficiency from the drop-down box under
- The power mode section
Activate Battery Saver
the battery saver limits the background activity and notifications to increase the battery backup, so you should use the battery saver efficiently to improve the battery life:
Open settings
- Under the system, tab go to power and battery
- Here on battery saver, you can turn it on
- Directly or schedule it to turn
- Automatically on at a particular battery percentage
- Then enable the lower screen brightness when using the battery saver
Disable Background Apps
the background apps coming consume lots of battery you can disable their
background running permission to improve the battery life first you need to know which apps are running in the background, to check it:
Open the power and battery
under the system tab then expand the battery usage section. in the battery usage per app, section go to the sort. and select background
Now you will see the apps that consume heavy battery in the background, note them down you can either disable their background activity or uninstall them if you don’t plan to use them further.
To disable the app’s background activity:
Go to the apps
Click on installed apps or apps and features
Then locate the app
Click on the three dots menu and select advanced options
if you don’t see the advanced option it means the app doesn’t allow you to change its background
Settings go to the background apps
permissions section select never in the drop-down box do the same with other high background activity apps.
Adjust Sleep & Screen Turn off Time
if you often leave your computer unattended you should reduce the sleep and screen turn off time a low sleep and screen turn off time reduces the load on your battery:
- Open settings
- Go to the power and battery
- Enlarge the screen and sleep
Reduce Refresh Rate of Display
Now reduce the screen turn off time and sleep time reduce the refresh rate of the display the refresh rate of your display impacts the battery life if you are on battery and your screen is on a higher refresh rate it will quickly consume the battery so you should reduce the refresh rate, to do that:
- Go to settings
- Under the system, tab go to display
- Scroll down and go to advanced display
Then change the refresh rate of your internal display external displays won’t impact the battery life as they have their own power supply.
Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
If you are not using Bluetooth and wi-fi you should disable them. Bluetooth and wi-fi constantly search for signals consuming lots of power you should disable them when you are on battery backup and not using them.
Open the quick actions by clicking here or pressing the windows plus a button then disable the wi-fi and Bluetooth.
Unplug Unnecessary Devices
Every peripheral plug-in to your laptop drains power, such as your external keyboard mouse printer, etc so when you are working on the battery you should disconnect these peripherals it will increase the battery backup and battery life in a long way.
Use Dark Mode or Dark Theme
When you activate the dark mode your screen consumes less energy, so you should prefer using dark mode and dark theme to improve the battery life on your Windows 11. to activate the dark mode:
- Open the settings
- Go to personalization
- Then colors
- Then in the choose your mode section
- Select dark to use the darker
- theme go back and choose themes
Here you can use any pre-installed darker theme or install them from the Microsoft store.