5G isn’t the biggest battery drain on your phone Using your phone for more than a couple of hours a day, the screen is going to be the biggest battery drain — this varies widely by phone, but could be as much as 25% of your battery usage . Even more so if you spend time outside with it cranked up to 100% brightness.2 Mar 2021
Read moreDoes turning off 5G save battery?
On its website, the carrier says users can “toggle from 5G/LTE to 2G” to save battery life. T-Mobile’s battery-saving tip comes shortly after Verizon implied that turning off 5G helps prevent a phone’s battery from “draining faster than normal.”
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