Phone Tips: Left your charger at home? How to charge another phone using your phone

Phone Charging Tips: If your phone battery runs out while traveling and you left your charger or power bank at home, you can easily charge one phone from another. Learn the full story.

Phone Charging Tips

It often happens that we go out for some important work and, in a hurry, forget our phone charger or power bank at home. If your phone's battery runs out on the road and you need to make an important UPI payment or book a cab, it can be quite a hassle. In such a situation, if you have a second phone or a friend traveling with you has a good battery life, it's crucial.

So you don't need to search for a socket or charger. Nowadays, phones are so smart that they can even act as mobile power banks. You can transfer battery from one phone to another just like you would share data or photos. Let's explain how this process works.

This technique of charging one phone from another is called reverse wired charging. It's easily available even on budget phones priced at 10,000-12,000 rupees these days. All you need is a charging cable with Type-C pins on both ends. If you have an old USB cable, you can use a small OTG adapter available for fifty rupees.

Connect the first end of the OTG cable to the phone with the larger battery, and the second end to the phone with the lower battery. Once you've connected the two phones, a notification will pop up on your screen. Tap on it, go to USB Preferences, and select Charge Connected Device or Reverse Charging. Simply doing this will turn the phone with the larger battery into a power bank, and the other phone will begin charging immediately.

Charging will also be possible by placing the phone behind the phone.

Even if you don't have a cable, it's still easy. Many expensive phones like Samsung, Apple, OnePlus, and Google Pixel offer Reverse Wireless Charging, or Power Share. To use this feature, first go to your phone's Settings, go to the Battery section, and turn on the Wireless Power Sharing or Battery Share toggle.

On many phones, this button can also be found in the Control Center by swiping from the top down. After turning it on, place your phone face down on the screen and place the other phone against its back, right in the middle. Just make sure the other phone you're charging also supports wireless charging. As soon as the back panels of the two phones touch, the battery will transfer wirelessly.

Keep these things in mind while charging another phone.

This feature is very useful in times of crisis, but it's important to keep a few things in mind when using it. First, understand that the charging speed of a phone from one charger to another is much slower than with a standard charger. Therefore, use it not to fully charge your phone, but to get 15-20 percent battery in an emergency so you can continue with your pending work.

Additionally, if you're charging your phones wirelessly, be sure to remove the thick back covers on both phones, or the connection will keep dropping. Many smartphones have a built-in safety limit, meaning if the charging current of the charging phone drops below 20 or 30 percent, reverse charging will automatically stop. Additionally, both phones may heat up slightly during charging, so avoid heavy gaming on them during this time.