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If you want to avoid the charger for as long as possible, there’s a clear choice. Credit: Apple/YouTube Table of Contents Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding my work at Lifehacker as a preferred source. Apple didn’t necessarily make it easy to pick a new iPhone this year. The $799 iPhone 17 comes with features previously exclusive to the Pros, without raising the price; the iPhone 17 Pros, once agai...

Credit: charnsitr/Shutterstock Among the many features and changes included in iOS 26 are a series of helpful battery updates for your iPhone. There’s a new charging indicator that appears at the top of the Lock Screen, to let you know how long it’ll take to charge your phone to 80 or 100%; a redesigned Battery settings page, which gives you deeper insights into your battery health and usage; and, most notably, a new “Adaptive Power” feature, that can make small changes i...

Credit: Michelle Ehrhardt/Lifehacker It’s quite convenient being able to play Mario Kart or Zelda on the go, but once your Switch 2’s battery life indicator says it’s about to die, you’re back to worrying about where the nearest outlet is. If you’ve been playing your Switch 2 in handheld mode this week, you might have noticed that the console warns that it’s running out of battery quicker than you’d expect. Maybe you chalked that up to the device’s...