- Samsung has some new battery options for charging in the One UI 7 beta.
- Previously, the “maximum” mode limited charging to 80%.
- With One UI 7 you can move that limit as high as 95%.
If there’s one smartphone component that everybody’s got a bit of a love/hate relationship with, it’s got to be our phones’ batteries. Modern batteries are energy-dense, fast to charge, and make our power-hungry phones as useful as they are. But they also demand constant attention, especially when it comes to making sure they’re charged when we need them. With this month’s release of the One UI 7 beta, Samsung’s giving Galaxy users one convenient new way to keep their batteries happy and healthy.
Batteries are temperamental chemical cocktails that sometimes feel like they’re just doing everything they can to burst into flames. And as a consequence of that delicate nature, pushing them as hard as we can, all the time, is a sure-fire way to hurt their long-term storage capacity. That’s exactly why Android has cooked up systems like Adaptive Charging, where rather than charging your phone all the way up to 100% whenever you plug it in, the charge level your battery is held at is limited to 80%, supposedly extending its life.