Pokémon GO: 7 Essential Battery-Saving Tips You Need To Know

2. Lower Screen Brightness

There aren't any screen-saving options inside Pokémon GO, but hopping into your phone's main settings and knocking the slider down can sometimes give you an additional half hour (or so) of playtime.

Developers Niantic previously released the beloved Ingress, a similar alternate reality-intensive app that re-mapped our own world with portals and points of interest.

So far, many players of both that and PoGo have noted just how much of a difference in battery life their truly is, as the former can be played for hours at a time. Hopefully this indicates a fix is coming in the near future - providing Niantic get a handle on Pokémon GO's unprecedented success.