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How To Easily Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay

August 11, 2022 by Karyn Locke

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Going on a vacation can put everyone in a good mood. It’ll be the perfect day to get away from the city and allow themselves to relax and enjoy the entire week. To make the vacation period worthwhile, making the trip longer can provide plenty of positive vibes and really helps to put a person at ease. With a long vacay, ensure you prepare everything well to allow for a comfortable and smooth experience.   

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay

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  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay
  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Download Energy-Efficient Apps 
  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Check Your Network Plan 
  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Bring An Adapter
  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Carry A Back-Up Battery 
  • Pick The Right Phone Gadgets And Accessories
  • Free Up Some Space 
  • Download Offline Maps 
  • Prepare For Foreign Sim 
  • Lock Your Phone 
  • How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Takeaway 

Apart from packing your clothes, you should also prepare your smartphone for a long vacation. This will help to provide maximum comfortability as you’ll be using your phone for everything—from taking photos down to using the maps in case you get lost. To make your long vacation more enjoyable, below are some ways to prepare your smartphone for a long vacation:  

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Do you have your phone ready to go for a long vacation? Here’s what you need to know.

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Download Energy-Efficient Apps 

As you go for an extended vacation, expect that you’ll be out exploring for the entire day. This means you’ll have no guaranteed access to any electrical outlet for your whole trip, forcing you to get the most out of your battery before leaving the hotel. To avoid emptying your phone’s battery at midday, you should download apps that don’t drain the battery. This way, you don’t have to worry about your phone’s energy as you use your phone for the entire trip, leaving you with enough power as you arrive back at your hotel.  

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Check Your Network Plan 

Even if you don’t plan on calling anyone during your trip, it’s still highly recommended to have your sim card active. This way, you can easily connect with people, especially if you badly need to get in touch with them. Also, you allow people to contact you quickly in an emergency.

To make things comfortable for everyone, you should check with your plan and ensure you have enough cellular data, texts, and calls. This will allow for maximum convenience even if you don’t plan on using them in the first place.  

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Bring An Adapter

If you’re traveling to a different country, expect them to have an unusual wall socket from what you have at home. This can be frustrating, especially since you cannot use them to charge your gadgets during your entire trip. To avoid this trouble, you should bring a universal adapter. This way, you can plug into any wall sockets and allow yourself to charge your smartphones to survive during your entire vacation trip.   

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Carry A Back-Up Battery 

It just feels impossible to limit taking photos during your entire trip using your phone. As you use your smartphone to take pictures, search for good food, and use the map, you might catch yourself with a low battery during your trip. This can be inconvenient, especially if you badly need to use your phone to get around the city.

To help keep your battery full, one of the things you should bring is a backup battery. Ideally, a power bank would work just fine as long as you carry a cable with you. This allows you to charge your phone while you’re out without looking for any electrical outlets.  

Pick The Right Phone Gadgets And Accessories

With your phone, it’ll be great if you could bring along some gadgets to help you reach your phone’s full potential. You can begin by looking for a dual-purpose phone case that’s waterproof or even has an extended battery feature. This way, you don’t have to bring an external power supply but let your phone case do all the work.

Additionally, you can even get some selfie sticks or a tripod so you can take amazing photos with you while also capturing the beautiful background of your destination.

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Prepare your phone for a long vacation ahead of time so you can spend your trip simply enjoying the time.

Free Up Some Space 

If you plan on using your phone to take photos of your entire trip, you should check your phone’s memory and see if it can still accommodate more images during your entire trip. Ideally, you should leave out at least 10GB of memory, just in case.

This way, you can let your phone capture as many photos as possible without having to delete some while you’re away. Freeing up space before the trip allows you to save pictures on your computer rather than permanently deleting them from your phone. 

Download Offline Maps 

You can never guarantee if there will be a signal or Wi-Fi from where you’re going. You should download offline maps on your smartphone to avoid getting lost during your trip. This way, you can quickly access your destination’s map without needing to connect to a network.

You can even save some directions on your phone, so you can have full details of where you’re going and how to get around the place quickly and conveniently.

Prepare For Foreign Sim 

If you’re planning to take a long vacation to a different country, you should unlock your phone so that it can accommodate foreign sims. This way, you can quickly purchase any sim and install them on your phone with ease and get the advantages of calling each other while on the trip along with getting an internet connection easily.

This will be a great option if you’re looking for a cheaper way to connect wherever you are without switching your current line to roaming.   

Lock Your Phone 

Along with losing documents on your trip, there might be instances in which you might lose your phone as well. You can just imagine how frustrating and inconvenient it’ll be, especially since you’ll need to take more photos and use the map to get around the city. To avoid further problems, you should add a passcode to your phone and enable your GPS so you can track your phone if it gets lost.  

How To Prepare Your Smartphone For A Long Vacay – Takeaway 

Preparing your smartphone for a long vacation can help make your entire trip much more convenient and enjoyable. As you try to minimize your battery usage and prepare enough power, you also need to guarantee your phone’s safety by using precautionary methods in case it gets lost. With all those preparations, ensure that you enjoy your trip as the view and destination are all that matter.  

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