Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Battery Draining Fast, How to Improve Battery Life?

The S22 Ultra comes with a mammoth 5000 mAh battery that can last a full day with high usage. Despite the big battery, users have complained about the S22...

Adnan Ahmed

Last updated on February 24, 2026

Adnan Ahmed

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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Specifications

The Galaxy S22 Ultra is Samsung’s top-tier flagship for 2022 and has some of the most boastful features in a smartphone. It comes equipped with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and is backed by up to 1TB of fast storage.

The Galaxy S22 Ultra also has an impressive camera array with a 108MP primary shooter, a 12MP ultrawide, 10MP telephoto that can zoom 10x optically, and another 10MP 3x telephoto lens.

The best part about the Galaxy S22 Ultra is its big, vibrant 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED display that refreshes at 120 frames a second. It supports LTPO technology, which can drop the framerate as low as 1Hz to preserve battery life.

How to Improve Battery Life on Galaxy S22 / S22 Plus

If you’ve recently purchased the Galaxy S22 Ultra and have been getting less than ideal-battery life, there could be several prominent reasons for the issue. Below, we will discuss possible fixes and recommend that you follow them until you find the fix that works for you.

Fix 1: Disable Always on Display

Although Always on Display is extremely useful for getting quick information about your phone’s battery level and notifications at a glance, it also consumes considerable battery life. If you do not require the Always on Display feature on your Galaxy S22 Ultra, we recommend you disable it. This will save a decent amount of battery life and help reduce distractions while working or enjoying time with your family and friends.

To disable the Always on Display on your Galaxy S22 Ultra, navigate to Settings > Display, navigate to the bottom of the menu and click on Always on Display. Here, tap the toggle to disable it. You can also set a custom time period for when your phone’s screen lights up. This way, you can save your phone’s battery life by disabling the feature during your sleep.

Fix 2: Turn Off Location Services

GPS is a location service that tends to consume a ton of your phone’s battery since it constantly updates your phone’s position and tells other apps exactly where you are. Having GPS turned on always can also be quite a privacy nightmare.

You can disable GPS when not needed in the quick toggles menu on your Galaxy S22 Ultra. Every time you open an app that does require your location like Google Maps, your phone will prompt you to turn on GPS anyway.

Fix 3: Update Your Phone

Newly launched phones often suffer from poor battery optimization right out of the box. This is due to the lack of customer feedback on a product that is fresh off the assembly line. Oftentimes, companies push a few software updates in the first few weeks of releasing a smartphone, based on customer feedback about battery usage and performance.

Being always up-to-date with the latest software version also promotes stronger security and adds the best new features as well. To check for software updates on your Galaxy S22 Ultra, navigate to Settings > System > Software Update and tap to check for any available updates.

Fix 4: Turn On Battery Saving Mode

Fortunately, Samsung devices come preloaded with a useful and customizable power-saving mode that will squeeze the most battery out of your phone. To enable it on your Galaxy S22 Ultra, swipe down to access the quick toggles and tap on the Power Mode icon. This will bring up a popup prompting you to enable the Medium Power Saving mode. This battery-saving mode will restrict your CPU’s usage to 70%, stop a few apps and services in the background, and drop your brightness down a notch.

For more options, you can tap and hold the Power Mode icon in the quick settings. Here, you can select from a variety of power modes including high performance, optimized, medium power saving, and extreme power saving. The extreme power-saving mode will turn on the dark theme on your Galaxy S22 Ultra’s AMOLED panel, and will further restrict apps and services. This tip can be used to your advantage at times when you really want to squeeze every last bit of your battery.

Fix 5: Factory Reset Your Phone

While battery drain is an issue almost everybody with a modern smartphone faces, thanks to the growing number of power-hungry chipsets, sometimes the battery drain is abnormally high.

If you find your phone losing battery during sleep and when not in use, there’s a good chance that there’s something in the software causing this discrepancy. You can either figure out which app or service it is that’s causing your phone to slow down manually and drain the battery quicker, or simply factory reset it. Do note that you will lose all data stored on your phone, including media such as photos and videos.

Conclusion

We hope our guide on how to improve the battery life on Galaxy S22 Ultra was helpful to you. If you have any tips other than what we’ve mentioned, do let the other readers know in the comments below! If you have any queries regarding the guide, feel free to contact us, we’d be happy to help!