Reasons Why You Should Switch Off Your Phones At Night Or Once In A While

It is not up for debate that smart phones are the most used electronic devices in the world, they are literary left on all day and night, because they are connected to receive calls, messages and information.



However, there are proves to show that leaving your phone on all the time isn't the best thing to do, as they need to be switched off at night or sometimes when they are not in use. In this article we are going to discuss 2 health reasons why phones need to be switched off at night. One of the reason relates to your health while the other relates to the health of the phone.


Your Health

Most people charge their phones next to their beds, reason being that it is the last thing they use before sleeping, some even doze off with their smart phones still in their hands. However, did you know that our smart phones emits radiation even when they are not being used? Yes they do, as long as they are still on, there are continuous radiation being emitted by phones.


Scientist have advised keeping the body as far away from radiation has possible, because of the harmful effects it has on the body system.

In order not to risk your health any further, just switch off your phones at night but if that is too much, then you can put it on airplane mode.

Phone's Health

One reason why a phone's lifespan is shortened is because of constant usage and this usage leads to overcharging, which causes the phone's battery life to be depleted. As long as your phone is left on, it is in use and there are so many background data that runs, switching off while charging helps it to hold a charge better.



Sometimes our phones contains programs that store up overtime and this makes it to run slower, or you may have noticed that your phones "hangs" while you are operating and the way you solved this problem was to switch it off and on again.