Verizon support tells subscribers to turn off 5G to save battery life

[Jacob Siegal]

• Verizon's support team tweeted out a tip over the weekend to keep your battery from draining too quickly that involved disabling 5G, but the tweet has since been deleted.
• Verizon's nationwide 5G network is even slower than LTE for some subscribers, but being on a 5G network can drain your battery more quickly than LTE.
• If you want to disable 5G, go to Cellular > Cellular Data Options > Voice & Data and tap LTE.

5G might be the future of cellular phone networks, but unless you live (and remain) in a city where true ultra wideband 5G is available, you might be better off sticking with a 4G LTE network for now. In fact, that's precisely what Verizon's support team said on Sunday morning in a tweet (that has since been deleted) which advised subscribers to turn on LTE if they noticed their battery life has been draining faster than it normally does.

As The Verge notes, Verizon was careful not to directly point to 5G as the culprit behind accelerated battery drain, but the message was only of use to those who weren't already on LTE. It was a valiant effort to respond to 5G customers without putting 5G on blast, but it must have come too close to the line, as the tweet is now gone.

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