The superb iPhone 16 Pro or Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, are among the best phones that you can buy in 2025. At least until the iPhone 17 arrives. These high -end phones have a lot in common, from their excellent cameras and their high performance, but also their price labels. Even phones adapted to wallets such as Google Pixel 9A always cost a large part of the money. With the stock market strings continuing to tighten the whole world, it has never been so important to make the most value from the phone you buy, and the best way to do so is simply to continue using it longer, spreading this expensive purchase over the years, rather than upgrading more often.
Doing this is not better for your bank account; It is much better for the planet too. The upgrading of your handset means less often fewer phones produced and shipped while less old phones are found in a discharge. The good news is that companies like Apple, Google, Samsung and others support their phones with software updates longer, which means that the phone you buy today will remain safe for years to come.
The rest depends on you. Keeping your phone in good working order for the seven or eight years of software support that it could receive requires efforts, a lot of care and some key strategies.
Here are the best things you can do to help your phone as long as possible.
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Install all the updates available
The use of a phone that no longer receives security updates is simply not sure and must be avoided. Previously, it was common for many Android manufacturers to support new phones for only two to three years, but now you will find phones like the Google Pixel 9 series with seven years of software support. Unfortunately, some more affordable phones such as the new Nord CE4 Lite only receive only a few years of updates. If you buy a new phone, be sure to check how long it will be supported because it will give you more value for money throughout the life of the phone.
Updating your phone to the last security update will help keep the pirates to go out and keep your phone free from malware that could slip and slow down your phone. Most phones will automatically invite you to install the latest updates (and you should), but if you are on an old phone, go to your settings menu and scroll down Software update And click to see if an update is available.
The same goes for your applications, which will also have to be updated to stay compatible with the iOS or Android version you use. It is good to allow the application to be automatically updated in the background, but if not, be sure to go to your choice store and check that you are running the latest versions.
Use a case
If you have just bought a new shiny iPhone, the best thing you can do to protect it physically is to put it immediately in one case. This will not only keep it if you accidentally place it, but it will also help prevent it from collecting micro scratches from the keys or parts in your pocket.
A screen protector is also a great idea, because once the real screen of your phone is damaged, there is not much to do to help it. If you get a nasty scratch on a screen protector, you can simply replace it, keeping the fresh fresh phone like a daisy for years to come. Even if you do not plan to keep your phone for years, keeping it cool can help you sell it to find out more on the second -hand market when upgrading.
Replace a tired battery, not the phone
The battery of your phone will gradually wear out over time, offering less battery life by load than when it was new. It’s true for all phones. Some older phones can have batteries that only offer 50% of what they have done. You can even receive warnings from your phone that your battery cannot offer the necessary power and therefore your processor can be strangled to compensate.
Do not worry, because it is easy enough to replace the battery yourself on most phones to give it a whole new lease. Ifixit sells a variety of third-party kits and replacement batteries to adapt to a wide range of phones, so if your battery is going out, it is worth seeing if you can exchange it yourself.
The iPhone 6 with the old battery withdrawn and all traces of the glue have cleaned.
There are a variety of places where you can take your phone (not all are particularly legitimate) to have your battery replaced – or even other components as a broken screen – and this could be a good option to consider if you are not particularly confident about your skills with a screwdriver.
Discover the old applications and photos you don’t need
If you have had your phone for years, there is a good chance that it is quite blocked with thousands of photos of your friends, your pets or food plates that you eaten during the time you have it. It is also likely that you have a variety of old applications and games that you have downloaded on a whim, played with a few bus journeys, then passed to the next mobile game feeling.
A lack of storage can have a harmful effect on the performance of your phone and can also mean that there is not enough space available for the installation of crucial software. It is worth going through your archives, saving the photos and videos you want to save on the cloud and get rid of everything that is unnecessarily taking up space.
If you’ve had your phone for a long time and it really works slowly, it may even be worth saving all your important data and making a complete factory reset, starting fresh and installing only the essential elements you need.
The satisfactory removal of the dirt from the load port of your phone.
Clean your ports
Finally, give good cleaning to your phone because it can have surprisingly useful results. Pocket Fluff can be a real problem for your phone, the load port in particular closes with pieces of nonsense. The result is that when you connect your charger, it cannot quite connect and, therefore, your phone does not take care.
It is easy to think that something has really broken – the load port itself, or the cable – but it could really be as simple as the just -filled port. Get a wooden toothpick periodically and try to relieve the dirt and the debris you find to make sure your charger can adapt without having to be aggressively attacked.
It is also worth using an old toothbrush (clean and dry) to gently brush the debris that you could find around speakers and microphones to make sure you can clearly hear – and be heard – on your phone calls.
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