Summer Is the Worst Season for Your Phone Battery. Here's How to Get Through It

Heat damage to a phone battery accumulates silently all summer and shows up as reduced capacity by fall. These steps interrupt that cycle.

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Summer is the season when most people's smartphone batteries take their biggest annual hit, and most of the damage happens in ways that don't feel like a big deal in the moment. A phone left on a car seat while you run an errand. A device charging on a hot nightstand. Thirty minutes of navigation in direct sun on a road trip. None of it feels catastrophic, and none of it is, until the cumulative effect shows up during September heat waves as a battery that holds noticeably less charge than it did in May. The steps that prevent that outcome are simple and the best time to start using them is before the damage has happened.

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