How to Drain the Battery on Your Phone

Last Updated: November 14, 2022

Wanting to drain the battery on your phone? Not wanting to ruin your phone's battery by charging it while it's at 64% but you need to get it to 100%? For whatever reason, read on to find out how to quickly drain your phone's battery, but not ruin your phone's battery forever!

Steps

1
Open up all/most of your apps. As long as you don't clear them from your phone's memory, this will drain your phone's battery quickly, especially if you have a lot of apps! For example, on an iPhone, if you click on your home button twice, you can slide the apps away-- this is clearing them from your memory. Don't do that!
2
For automatic screen lock, click on never. That means that if you yourself don't turn off your phone's screen, it'll stay on forever. That will definitely drain your phone's battery.

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3
Put your screen's brightness to its maximum. Have you heard that when you put it really low it'll save battery? Well, this is the exact opposite!
4
This is especially for those without wifi handy - turn on wifi. If your phone continues to search for wifi that is not there, it will also continue to deplete your battery.

Community Q&A

Question

How can I restart my phone if it froze?

Community Answer

Open up the back and take out the memory card. Leave it out for a few seconds. This might help speed up the process of the phone shutting down and get it out of its frozen mode,
Question

How can I use my phone as a hand warmer?

Community Answer

You can charge your phone; when it's on the charger it gets hot. You can also get a portable charger to take on the go. Make sure it doesn't get too hot, otherwise you could damage your phone. Also, don't leave your phone charging on a bed or other flammable object because it may start a fire.
Question

How do I stop my phone from getting so dirty if I don't want to use a stylus?

Community Answer

You could use a screen protector to cover your phone, or get a wallet phone case.