Is it bad to leave your phone plugged in overnight? Do you have to wait until your battery dies to charge your phone? Tech experts reveal the truth.There are a lot of myths out there about how you should be caring for your phone battery. We talked to tech experts to find the truth that will help to keep your phone battery as healthy as possible. If you use too many apps, here’s how to see which ones are draining your phone,
Truth: Smart technology stops your phone battery from charging after it’s full. If the battery drops back down to a certain point when it’s still plugged in, the phone knows to start charging again,
says Sergio Flores, electronics engineer for Samsung. “This way, even if you are charging your phone overnight, the phone battery is only being charged when it is necessary,” he says. Here are some surprising Android hacks you never knew about.
Truth: Using a public port could put your information at risk. Unlike the typical socket you’d plug your charger into, those cords you see at restaurants and airports create an easy path to transfer data.
“People don’t realize they’re not just a power source,” says Eva Velasquez, CEO and president of Identity Theft Resource Center. “It’s not like plugging your lamp into the wall.”
