My wife Angela lets her phone battery literally die every night, She'll be showing me a video and I can see the battery is at 2% and I'm freaking out, but she doesn't care. Most Americans however do care about their phone battery strength. According to a survey of 2-thousand U.S. adults, 38% is that magic number for the majority of folks. But worry doesn’t set in for some people until much later.
- A third (34%) of those polled feel fine until their phone battery gets below 20%, then they start searching for a charger.
- And a much calmer 13% say they don’t worry about their battery life until it drops to less than 10%.
- But others start much sooner, including 24% who panic when their phone battery is still over half full.
- It turns out, younger generations feel the low battery anxiety more than older generations, who are happy to let their battery drop lower before concern kicks in.
- For Gen Z, 44% is when the panic starts creeping in, and for millennials is similar, at 43%.
- Gen Xers are fine until it’s 38% and baby boomers are the most relaxed of all, waiting until 34%, on average, before looking to plug their phone in.
- No matter how low you let it go, most people like to know exactly how much juice their phone has left, as 61% have the numerical percentage display showing on their phone to see the precise amount of battery remaining.
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