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10 Tips to Increase Battery Life in Windows 11

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

10 Tips to Increase Battery Life in Windows 11 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:

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

Use Lower Brightness on Battery | etagege

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:

Select Best Efficiency Power Mode | etagege

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

Activate Battery Saver | etagege

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

Disable Background Apps | etagege

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.

Disable Background Apps win 11 | etagege

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:

Adjust Sleep and Screen Turn off Time | etagege

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:

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.

Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth | etagege

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:

Use Dark Mode or Dark Theme win 11 | etagege

Here you can use any pre-installed darker theme or install them from the Microsoft store.

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