I just got my wife a Pixel 6 this weekend so I sent this to her. She knows nothing about phones but I think she should be able to follow your suggestions and learn a bit more too.
This is SO helpful, thank you!!! I’ve looked at some of these settings and wasn’t sure how they all worked. I love how this gives you so much control. I think I’ll have to watch this again when I have more time to go through and look at these things on my phone while looking at the video. Great job.
By restricting an apps background usage it will in fact use more battery because the app is not held in memory and when restricted needs to completely open from closed and will therefore use more resources. Android system will do a good job itself when left on optimised to handle apps in memory and close when needed. I used too think the same as you before I discovered what I did.
Another good battery saver is turning off camera permission in the messages app. At least I've noticed a big difference. I don't really send much pictures or take pictures on the spot when texting so it was pretty much pointless for me to have the camera at the ready for the times I do send a pic. I just attach a pic to the text. Before I turned it off, my battery was draining a lot faster. It seems like the camera app just runs in the background when enabled.
Great tips. On my Pixel 6 I Turn OFF 5g. And always keep it OFF. 5g wasted quite a bit more battery all the time, so I keep 4g LTE selected under network preferences. I only use 5g if I'm out and about and The 4g LTE service is not working.
I also did the Battery Restriction on the apps, and on some apps, like banking apps, I turned off "Mobile data & Wi-Fi". This doesn't allow the app to run internet connectivity in the background unless you open the app. I have no need for my banking apps to run internet connectivity in the background and this is also good for security to prevent your banking apps from emptying your bank account in the background by some malicisious software.
Great video Adam. I'm on day 4 with my P6P, and I'm going to hit most of the settings you talked about. I knew the battery needed time to get used to my routine, but might as well make it a little easier.
Thanks for the tips mate and I do like the speed that you apply to going through the tutorial as many skip through so quickly it is almost impossible to follow.
Thank you! I got mine yesterday and was really disappointed with the battery life so far. At 100%, it was supposed to last 21 hours. My Pixel 2XL was giving me almost two days when I first got it! Good to know this will improve as I go.
Yeah, turning it off doesn't really matter to me because I'm on Wi-Fi so much that it's not a big deal. I think 5G is frankly overrated. Everything I've been reading seems to revolve around the fact that Google's choice of their 5G modem is perhaps an older one that isn't as efficient and that's what's causing some of the battery drain issues.
@@EricFDrums I find turning on adaptive connectivity helps as the phone keeps your phone on 4g until you demand more bandwidth, which then switches over to 5g usage
Thanks for the excellent video. You use the time to convey useful information without wasting time on fluff or info irrelevant to the topic at hand. You make your content easy to recommend.
Thnx. I have been struggling with my battery. I have my Pixel 6 Pro for a week and battery has been terrible. I'm coming from a Pixel 5. So I'm trying to do everything to make it better. I don't want to have to send it back. Got almost 3 weeks to figure it out...
HI, am so shocked & Puzzled to see your pixle 6 with 98% shows more than 2 days left. mine is 9 days old , find it drains so fast. also with 99% battery only shows 21hours left with all the tips & tricks applied. please do help me out
I have not experienced that. Occasionally she doing things like using google maps while driving and recording 4K, yeah. It heats up. During normal use? Not so much
Thanks for the tips. I have the Pixel 6 pro and I get such good battery that I have never run close to draining the battery. I have Accubattery installed and it has an alarm set when I reach 80%. I generally take it off the wireless charger when the alarm sounds and I still have no problem getting through the day. Most of my phone's use is playing audio through a BT speaker or headphones. Since the screen is off most of that time, it doesn't use that much power. I HATE adaptive brightness. I've seen the screen on my Android 10 phone (Oneplus 5T) dim while I'm trying to read it. I just turned it off on my Pixel 6 Pro. I also turned the screen timeout to 15 seconds with attention on.
Why do I need to turn off 5g, dim this, adapt that?? Why can't it just have a good battery without all the run around bullshit like every other phone I've had??
Thanks for the video I will try your tips.Had my P6 1 week and with SOT 3.41 had just about 30% left. I have also just turned off 5G last night so hopefully help. Does always on display use a lot of battery?
I have done all these things but the battery still not good. The network standby is draining 25 to 45 % of my battery every day. I am not using 5G? Have you had any issue with the network standby?
@@TechOdyssey Thanks for replying. I found couple of threads on reddit for this issue. So It is not only me, I hope google fix this. When I deactivate my sim, the battery works very well.
That happens as phone is constantly searching for 5G UWB. Go to network settings and set preferred network to 4G. He should have mentioned it in the video, it is best way to save battery on mmwave phones.
@@jackwilson5542 I have already done that days ago, still no luck. I also turned off data always on from developer options but didn't work. My phone is not US version, it doesn't have mmwave.
@@TechOdyssey no, and I have network issues, I have to try 2 or 3 times to male a call because it gets disconnected from the network. And the battery issue is just a new addition. Too bad, because it's one of the best phones I've had (if it weren't for those bugs)
i thought it wasn't ideal to keep your phone on the charger overnight because that would charge it to 100% and charging it to full was bad for the battery. i've been charging my phone up to only around 80%. does this phone have something that prevents it from doing that?
Have a look at the Adaptive Charging setting - it only charges your phone in time for your wake-up alarm in the morning so it doesn't spend a long time at high charge level throughout the night.
Thanks for the video. I was hoping you tell me how to fix my 46% network drain on the battery which is killing this phone. Super bad battery life at least for me
Night light has no effect on battery life. At worst, your time will be worse because of the extra processing to shift the hue of your screen (but i doubt it).
It's disappointing that all these modifications would need to be done to get better battery. It's such a big battery for it to drain as quickly as it does. My Pixel 5A lasted way longer and I sort of wish I had kept it. Understandably the 5A doesn't have that strong a processor but being Google's own tensor chip I would have liked to have seen them optimize the battery usage. Perhaps a future update will better this.
I'll give it a week like you said on the video and see if it changes and I'll keep you updated, I was also messing with settings too but now I changed it back to normal
The real problem is this. The 3aXL had better initial battery life then this new 6-Pro. It's atrocious. Older phones stop lasting as long and that was the reason for my to replace it with this. Love Google but so disappointed in this shit. Heck i didn't even realize it had the edge screen that Samsung went away with! WTF the edge screen is another point of contact to get the shit to crack and break.
you think the pixel 6 has bad battery life, you never seen samsung. my s22 plus goes from 80 percent to 70 percent in about ten minutes. thats with background apps closed, hz display is 60, battery saving is on and everything. DONT get samsung.
This phone is crap going to hand it back. Had a p30 for year's and was constantly on it and it never died was still on 60% battery when I went to bed. Pixel 6 is dead by 4 pm needing charged twice a day a day bollocks
Helpful content but this is the reason why RUclips is dying and TikTok is taking off!!! I shouldn't have to get through a solid minute and 21 seconds before we jump into the content, and everybody on RUclips nowadays has the fancy entry screen as if you're watching a movie in a theater with your logo and fancy graphics... it's like can we just get to the content already? That should be the first thing out of the video,first 10 seconds! No offense man was good content but you know I'm right.....
I make my content how I want to make it. If you don’t care for the format, there are tons of other people out there making tech content. This isn’t TikTok. TikTok exists for a reason. This is not short form content. Otherwise it would be a short.
Yeah still thick as hell has that slow ass outdated lighting cable a ugly notch, battery is trash after 2 yrs. Has a shitty 60hz screen and isn't bright at all. Pictures are mid too it only takes good videos all that for what 1200? 🤣 Sheep for sure
It's actually pretty refreshing doesn't have that square camera bump like all phones nowadays and had two tone coloring. Pretty distinct compared to most trash phones
Better than apple saying that innovate when they go 5g or watch the next time they say they're innovating is when they get rid of that ugly fat 4 yr old notch display. 🤣 Only cheap ass phones have a notch especially a notch that big?? It's dumb asf.
There's also a extra dim setting available. That helps as well. Can find it in the pull down selection settings
There's also extra dim
I just got my wife a Pixel 6 this weekend so I sent this to her. She knows nothing about phones but I think she should be able to follow your suggestions and learn a bit more too.
Awesome. I hope it helps
picked up the 6 last night. no regrets. great battery life as i'm a tinkerer
Nice!
Your can also try force dark mode in the developer options. Which will make every single app in dark mode.
Yeah. I’m not going to lead people down the road to developer settings 😅
Performed these tips & tricks on my new Pixel 6 and I'm amazed how well this worked. Thank you!!!!
Awesome. Glad I could help.
This is SO helpful, thank you!!! I’ve looked at some of these settings and wasn’t sure how they all worked. I love how this gives you so much control. I think I’ll have to watch this again when I have more time to go through and look at these things on my phone while looking at the video. Great job.
Awesome. Glad I could help
Estimated delivery of December 8-9th bought on Google store on November 3rd. When I get it I'll be happy
Wow. That’s a long time. Sorry you’re having to wait so long
Really useful. I just tweaked all the settings as you said on my pixel 6 pro which I just bought in Germany a couple of weeks ago.
Awesome. Glad I could help
By restricting an apps background usage it will in fact use more battery because the app is not held in memory and when restricted needs to completely open from closed and will therefore use more resources. Android system will do a good job itself when left on optimised to handle apps in memory and close when needed. I used too think the same as you before I discovered what I did.
60hz makes my phone feel like it's about to die but I'm going to try all of this and more and see if it works
I can finally comment with my new Google Pixel 6 Coral!!!! It is simply AMAZING
Very cool!
Another good battery saver is turning off camera permission in the messages app. At least I've noticed a big difference. I don't really send much pictures or take pictures on the spot when texting so it was pretty much pointless for me to have the camera at the ready for the times I do send a pic. I just attach a pic to the text. Before I turned it off, my battery was draining a lot faster. It seems like the camera app just runs in the background when enabled.
Great tips. On my Pixel 6 I Turn OFF 5g. And always keep it OFF. 5g wasted quite a bit more battery all the time, so I keep 4g LTE selected under network preferences. I only use 5g if I'm out and about and The 4g LTE service is not working.
Sweet.
I also did the Battery Restriction on the apps, and on some apps, like banking apps, I turned off "Mobile data & Wi-Fi". This doesn't allow the app to run internet connectivity in the background unless you open the app. I have no need for my banking apps to run internet connectivity in the background and this is also good for security to prevent your banking apps from emptying your bank account in the background by some malicisious software.
Great video Adam. I'm on day 4 with my P6P, and I'm going to hit most of the settings you talked about. I knew the battery needed time to get used to my routine, but might as well make it a little easier.
Did your battery get any better after a week or two?
How much of a difference does the battery life in 60hz mode make compared to turning on the 90hz mode?
Probably save you like extra 10 percent of battery life
Adaptive brightness was always a battery killer btw.. It use the sensor all the time and its bad.
Thanks for the tips mate and I do like the speed that you apply to going through the tutorial as many skip through so quickly it is almost impossible to follow.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
Thank you! I got mine yesterday and was really disappointed with the battery life so far. At 100%, it was supposed to last 21 hours. My Pixel 2XL was giving me almost two days when I first got it! Good to know this will improve as I go.
Is it better? It shows me about 14 hours after charging. Have my Pixel 6 for four days...
@@jonasvohrna It's a little better. Max charge I've had so far is 1 day, 6 hours.
Thanks a lot from Czechia
5g on Verizon seems to kill my 6 pro battery. After i turned it off to test, it was a huge difference.
Nice!
Yeah, turning it off doesn't really matter to me because I'm on Wi-Fi so much that it's not a big deal. I think 5G is frankly overrated. Everything I've been reading seems to revolve around the fact that Google's choice of their 5G modem is perhaps an older one that isn't as efficient and that's what's causing some of the battery drain issues.
@@EricFDrums I find turning on adaptive connectivity helps as the phone keeps your phone on 4g until you demand more bandwidth, which then switches over to 5g usage
@@KTT94 Thank you for this! I live in a patchy 5G area so this will be mega helpful!
my battery life 'evened out' after about a week. I assume due to adaptive battery and such
I start my day at 5:30am and by 11pm it still has more than 30% it happened after a week with it. The adaptive battery is amazing.
Sheesh that's a long ass day
@@steveharvey1906 😂😂
Thank you for your information
Amazing!! Thank you !
You’re welcome
Pixel still got a lot to learn
Super helpful...Thanks!
You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
Many thanks for that. A lot of good tips.
You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
Excellent! Thanku, dude...
Sure thing. Glad I could help
Thanks for the excellent video. You use the time to convey useful information without wasting time on fluff or info irrelevant to the topic at hand. You make your content easy to recommend.
Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoy it and it’s helpful.
thank you for this video ,I hated how my phone got hot after 10 minutes but after doing all this I'm loving my phone.
Awesome. Thanks so much.
Great information awesome thank you very helpful God bless you.
You’re very welcome. I’m glad it helped.
While I'm at home I keep my pixel 6 on the charger when I use it....should I be doing this ?
Not if it's fully charged
Thank for the tips
Sure thing
Thank you!
You’re welcome.
Turning off 5g always helps
Some phones you can’t depending on carrier.
I am a little extreme ,but If your rooted (Free) warden app and disabled trackers and loggers on certain apps.
i turned off smooth display and i didn't not any notice improvement in terms battery life compared to when it was on
Thanks man
Sure thing
Thnx. I have been struggling with my battery. I have my Pixel 6 Pro for a week and battery has been terrible. I'm coming from a Pixel 5. So I'm trying to do everything to make it better. I don't want to have to send it back. Got almost 3 weeks to figure it out...
I mostly use the phone with WiFi and that's a bit misleading for me when it comes to measuring screen time!
Oh ok
HI, am so shocked & Puzzled to see your pixle 6 with 98% shows more than 2 days left. mine is 9 days old , find it drains so fast. also with 99% battery only shows 21hours left with all the tips & tricks applied. please do help me out
Quick question man, how did your phone say more then 2 days left of battery, I find that amazing
On my phone's busiest days, I go to bed with around 40% battery. Pretty amazing.
All good tricks but the battery gets too warm when using phone. Which affects battery health
I have not experienced that. Occasionally she doing things like using google maps while driving and recording 4K, yeah. It heats up. During normal use? Not so much
Thanks for the tips. I have the Pixel 6 pro and I get such good battery that I have never run close to draining the battery. I have Accubattery installed and it has an alarm set when I reach 80%. I generally take it off the wireless charger when the alarm sounds and I still have no problem getting through the day. Most of my phone's use is playing audio through a BT speaker or headphones. Since the screen is off most of that time, it doesn't use that much power. I HATE adaptive brightness. I've seen the screen on my Android 10 phone (Oneplus 5T) dim while I'm trying to read it. I just turned it off on my Pixel 6 Pro. I also turned the screen timeout to 15 seconds with attention on.
I switched adaptive brightness off too.
bro i have a question can you play cod m high graphics ??
If you have played then how did you perform?
My Google Pixel 6 Pro battery ran out while watching this.
Great tips, very thorough!
Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for watching.
Why do I need to turn off 5g, dim this, adapt that?? Why can't it just have a good battery without all the run around bullshit like every other phone I've had??
I think the battery is fine without doing this stuff. It’s just recommendations for people who think they aren’t getting good enough battery.
OK in your video on battery percentage yous say more than two days left mind says 1 day 1 hour im at 100 percent charged any thoughts
My battery lasts from 7am to 1am and consitently getting over 7 hour's of screen time
Nice!
Thanks for the video I will try your tips.Had my P6 1 week and with SOT 3.41 had just about 30% left. I have also just turned off 5G last night so hopefully help. Does always on display use a lot of battery?
Hopefully you know by now. But battery saver mode turns 5g off automatically. You could just keep that running all day
Just we need is better battery charging really fast like another brand, have 120W Or 65W I matter that more
I have done all these things but the battery still not good. The network standby is draining 25 to 45 % of my battery every day. I am not using 5G? Have you had any issue with the network standby?
I have not. That’s odd.
@@TechOdyssey Thanks for replying. I found couple of threads on reddit for this issue. So It is not only me, I hope google fix this. When I deactivate my sim, the battery works very well.
That happens as phone is constantly searching for 5G UWB. Go to network settings and set preferred network to 4G. He should have mentioned it in the video, it is best way to save battery on mmwave phones.
@@jackwilson5542 I have already done that days ago, still no luck. I also turned off data always on from developer options but didn't work. My phone is not US version, it doesn't have mmwave.
Turn off adaptive connectivity.
Doesn't adaptive brightness use more battery because it's constantly using the sensors?
Yes
I had a pretty decent battery performance on my Pixel 6, but after the March update it went from 1.5 day to half day. Awful
You’re not the only one I’ve heard this from, sadly. It still hasn’t improved?
@@TechOdyssey no, and I have network issues, I have to try 2 or 3 times to male a call because it gets disconnected from the network. And the battery issue is just a new addition.
Too bad, because it's one of the best phones I've had (if it weren't for those bugs)
Same hopefully they fix it next update camera upgrades and battery fix
Is there any option on Google pixel 6, during battery charging,will stop when it goes to 80% ?
i thought it wasn't ideal to keep your phone on the charger overnight because that would charge it to 100% and charging it to full was bad for the battery. i've been charging my phone up to only around 80%. does this phone have something that prevents it from doing that?
Have a look at the Adaptive Charging setting - it only charges your phone in time for your wake-up alarm in the morning so it doesn't spend a long time at high charge level throughout the night.
How long should I charge for new pixel 6 for the first charge? 🤔
Doesn’t matter. If you want though you can charge It up all the way before you use it.
@@TechOdyssey I charged 4.5hrs tat shld be enuff. Thanks for advice.
@@vodchia9816 yup. Should be fine.
Thanks for the video. I was hoping you tell me how to fix my 46% network drain on the battery which is killing this phone. Super bad battery life at least for me
Turn off 5g and set it on LTE network
great vid
Thank you
How did you hide the navigation bar?
When im charging the phone at night, it keeps lighting up and changes the charge status, is this normal when using adaptive preferences
I went from 99% to 73% in a hour and a half with no video watching what's so ever just general internet searching :/
1 hr and 25 minutes screen on time and I'm currently at 36%
Night light has no effect on battery life. At worst, your time will be worse because of the extra processing to shift the hue of your screen (but i doubt it).
Battery: It shows you More than 2 days left. Me (after charging) only about 14 hours although I use these tips... (I have Pixel 6 for 4 days.)
It's disappointing that all these modifications would need to be done to get better battery. It's such a big battery for it to drain as quickly as it does. My Pixel 5A lasted way longer and I sort of wish I had kept it. Understandably the 5A doesn't have that strong a processor but being Google's own tensor chip I would have liked to have seen them optimize the battery usage. Perhaps a future update will better this.
Nova 7, one or very few widgets on pages,...
I don’t use launchers.
Thoughts on the Pixel 6a with a snapdragon?
Rumors are the 6A will sport the full Tensor chip and the older cameras from previous Pixel devices.
Any news for Blackberry key 3 ?
Unfortunately not
on my 6 pro i have been only getting 22 hours and it had 1 day on the usage and suddenly dropped. someone, please help!!!
Did you just update the phone last week?
@@TechOdyssey yes
I'll give it a week like you said on the video and see if it changes and I'll keep you updated, I was also messing with settings too but now I changed it back to normal
@@SpeedyColaGaming ok. Sounds good. Hop fully it restores your previous battery life.
@@TechOdyssey me too
The real problem is this. The 3aXL had better initial battery life then this new 6-Pro. It's atrocious. Older phones stop lasting as long and that was the reason for my to replace it with this. Love Google but so disappointed in this shit. Heck i didn't even realize it had the edge screen that Samsung went away with! WTF the edge screen is another point of contact to get the shit to crack and break.
you think the pixel 6 has bad battery life, you never seen samsung. my s22 plus goes from 80 percent to 70 percent in about ten minutes. thats with background apps closed, hz display is 60, battery saving is on and everything. DONT get samsung.
Maybe you should check out my video on the S22 battery life.
This phone is crap going to hand it back. Had a p30 for year's and was constantly on it and it never died was still on 60% battery when I went to bed. Pixel 6 is dead by 4 pm needing charged twice a day a day bollocks
Pixel 6 users like if this video really works😂
I am losing 10% battery per 30 min screen time. Is that normal?;
So about 5 hours of screen on time?
@@TechOdyssey Yes, about 5 hours on Pixel 6. I do see a little bit of improvement since i turned off the 90hz refresh rate.
Google pixel 6 pro I bearly get close to 5 hrs
Helpful content but this is the reason why RUclips is dying and TikTok is taking off!!!
I shouldn't have to get through a solid minute and 21 seconds before we jump into the content, and everybody on RUclips nowadays has the fancy entry screen as if you're watching a movie in a theater with your logo and fancy graphics... it's like can we just get to the content already? That should be the first thing out of the video,first 10 seconds!
No offense man was good content but you know I'm right.....
I make my content how I want to make it. If you don’t care for the format, there are tons of other people out there making tech content. This isn’t TikTok. TikTok exists for a reason. This is not short form content. Otherwise it would be a short.
Lol wow I bet you'll become a huge successful RUclips star by yelling at your viewers....
Also your making content for people to watch it NOT for how you want to make it btw...
My iphone 12 never had any issues handling 5g 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah still thick as hell has that slow ass outdated lighting cable a ugly notch, battery is trash after 2 yrs. Has a shitty 60hz screen and isn't bright at all. Pictures are mid too it only takes good videos all that for what 1200? 🤣 Sheep for sure
Thanks for the effort! It would be better if you get straight to the point.
I’ll do videos how I want, thanks
No phone full charged last me 6 hours normal usage... I game 6 hours straight. It will be lucky it last me 4 hours 100% 🤯
Sounds you need the ROG 3 phone lol.
Well gaming all day is definitely not normal usage.
The Pixel line looks boring and outdated despite being good.
Have you ever owned one?
I don’t see that at all
It's actually pretty refreshing doesn't have that square camera bump like all phones nowadays and had two tone coloring. Pretty distinct compared to most trash phones
Better than apple saying that innovate when they go 5g or watch the next time they say they're innovating is when they get rid of that ugly fat 4 yr old notch display. 🤣 Only cheap ass phones have a notch especially a notch that big?? It's dumb asf.
Sadly battery life is the weak point of this phone.
I think it's inconsistent for a lot of people. Mine I think is ok
i have a problem .. Why doesn't codm appear in the game dashboard of my pixel 6 phone?