Does disabling 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.”

In ideal circumstances, 5G can actually reduce battery usage . That’s because 5G is faster than 4G — it takes less power to transmit the same amount of data because it takes less time.2 Mar 2021

Therefore, with 5G’s current network, it is possible that your 5G phone devices might drain battery faster than 4G devices. A statement on Samsung’s official website has revealed that 5G phones tend to consume more battery as it keeps on switching between 4G and 5G networks.3 Mar 2021