Below are some suggestions that will extend your Chromebook battery life per charge cycle. Reducing anything that uses up resources on your Chromebook will extend the battery power.


Unplug peripherals

Any extra peripherals you have plugged into your Chromebook will drain the battery power. Don’t use your Chromebook to charge your phone.  

Turn down the brightness

This is the most battery-draining feature that can easily be controlled to limit how fast the battery gets used. If you don’t know how to adjust your Chromebook’s brightness, here’s how:

  1. Hit the “brightness down” key to make the screen dimmer.

  2. Hit the “brightness up” key to make the screen brighter

Close unused tabs

No one needs to have 12 tabs open with music one one, a paused video on another, social media, email, and various other random tabs launched all at once.  Closing out tabs on the Chrome Browser that are not used will save you battery life.

Turn off Bluetooth

Not using Bluetooth? You can shut off the Bluetooth receiver to minimize your resource usage and save some battery.

If you don’t know how to adjust your Chromebook’s bluetooth, here’s how:

  1. Click on your account picture at the bottom-right.

  2. You’ll see a label for “Bluetooth”

  3. Toggle it off by clicking on it.

Power down when possible

Yes, your Chromebook still uses power even in sleep or standby mode.

If you’re one of those people that puts your Chromebook to sleep at night, consider completely shutting it down next time overnight.

Shut it down before you take it on the go. When you boot it up again, it’ll take slightly longer to boot up, but barely.

And you’ll save a bunch of battery power by shutting it down completely rather than letting it idle.

Unplug when fully charged
Let it charge down to 10% before recharging a couple times a week to extend your battery life.

Use your provided cushioned case
to minimize damage to the hard drive and for overall protection from any bumps, drops or jolts.

Here are some common signs that your Chromebook’s battery needs to be replaced:

  • Your battery drains quickly.

  • Your battery doesn’t fully charge or discharge

  • The battery percentage jumps or skips certain numbers

  • Your Chromebook charges slowly

  • You notice that your Chromebook’s battery life is decreasing

All these are signs that your battery may be getting to the point where you need to either replace your Chromebook’s battery.