Bad battery life on your Android phone? Changing these 12 settings will do you wonders

A ZDNET guide outlines 12 quick settings changes to extend Android phone battery life, including disabling always-on display, enabling Adaptive Battery and Battery Saver/low-power modes, using dark mode, lowering brightness and screen timeout, removing unused accounts, turning off keyboard haptics and sounds, reducing notifications and Hey Google voice detection, lowering the screen refresh rate, and disabling unused wireless features; implementation steps and feature names vary slightly across devices (e.g., Pixel vs. Samsung).