Simple Habits That Extend Your Wireless Headphones' Battery Life

The battery in wireless headphones is lithium, like your phone's, and loses a little capacity with every charge cycle. You cannot stop that, but you can slow it down a lot with simple habits. Keep it away from heat. This is the most important tip in a Saudi summer: do not leave the headphones or the charging case in the car in the sun, or on a table by the window. High heat shortens battery life more than anything else. Do not wait until it is empty. A battery is happiest between 20% and 80%, so charge it when it runs low, and unplugging before it is full does no harm. If your headphones offer optimised charging in their app, turn it on. If you store them for weeks, leave them about half charged and switched off. A battery left empty for months may not come back to its full capacity. Switch off what you do not need. Active noise cancelling uses part of the battery, so turn it off somewhere quiet. And install the headphones' updates from their app; many of them improve power management. Finally, use a sound cable and charger from a trusted source. Chargers are not all the same, and a poor one heats the battery for no reason.