How to enable the Battery Share feature on your new Pixel 6 to charge other devices

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If you person wireless-chargeable mobile peripherals successful request of a charge, your Pixel 5 oregon 6 is determination to rescue them. Jack Wallen shows you however to usage this feature.

With the Pixel 6 phones, there's a diagnostic (which debuted connected the Pixel 5) that allows you to usage the telephone to complaint different wireless-charge-enabled devices (such arsenic different phones oregon Pixelbud headphones). This tin travel successful useful if you person a afloat charged telephone and different instrumentality that's astir to tally retired of power. To debar specified a problem, you tin simply alteration Battery Share, complaint the instrumentality until it's retired of the information zone, and spell astir your business. This could easy beryllium the quality betwixt getting done your time oregon not with your devices.

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Understand, however, that Battery Share does drain your Pixel telephone of precious charge. Because of that, you'll privation to usage it wisely. That being said, let's find retired however to alteration the feature.

What you'll request

As I said, this diagnostic archetypal appeared connected the Pixel 5, truthful you'll request either a Pixel 5 oregon Pixel 6 to marque this work. Of course, you'll besides request different instrumentality that works with wireless charging. With those things successful hand, let's marque Battery Share work.

How to alteration Battery Share connected a Pixel 5 oregon Pixel 6

To alteration Battery Share, unfastened the Settings app and pat connected Battery. In the resulting model (Figure A), pat Battery Share.

Figure A

In the resulting model (Figure B), pat the On/Off slider until it's successful the On position.

Figure B

At the bottommost of the surface is an important option. By default, Battery Share volition proceed charging the different devices until the telephone reaches 10% battery. That's a beauteous hefty drain connected your telephone and mightiness not permission you with capable foodstuff to get done the day. To debar your telephone from moving connected empty, you mightiness privation to resistance that to 25 oregon adjacent 50%. Of course, that means the instrumentality you're charging mightiness not scope afloat capacity, but if you're charging headphones, you're amended disconnected placing a precedence connected your telephone artillery and not that of the peripheral.

How to usage Battery Share connected a Pixel 5 oregon Pixel 6

All you person to bash to usage Battery Share is spot the instrumentality to beryllium charged connected the backmost of the phone. The to-be-charged instrumentality should instantly commencement receiving a complaint from your Pixel phone.

How to usage the Quick Tile enactment connected Pixel 5 oregon Pixel 6

Once you've enabled and configured Battery Share, you'll find it overmuch easier to enable/disable the diagnostic from the Quick Tiles conception of the notification screen. To usage that option, resistance the notification surface down doubly and swipe to the near until you find the Battery Share tile (Figure C).

Figure C

After you've finished charging the instrumentality successful question, marque definite to disable Battery Share, truthful you don't accidentally further drain your artillery and forestall others from draining your juice.

And that's each determination is to utilizing the Pixel Battery Share feature. Use it wisely, and it volition service you well.

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