The
iPhone is a great companion and it always has something for you to do,
unless the battery is dead. Once the juice drains away, you’re left with
a pretty paperweight in your pocket. It’s a real frustration when
you’re struggling to make the battery last between charges, and no one
wants to be plugging into an outlet more often than they have to. Try
out these iPhone battery tips to buy yourself some extra time.
Related: New features coming to iOS 9.3
Turn on Low Power Mode
If
you have iOS 9 or later installed on your iPhone, then you can take
advantage of Apple’s newfangled Low Power Mode. You’ll find the toggle
to turn it on in Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode. The
feature temporarily turns off or reduces mail fetch, Siri functions,
background app refresh, automatic downloads, and some visual effects
until you fully charge your iPhone.
Turn down the volume
You
should consider turning the volume down on your iPhone and using
headphones whenever possible, thus allowing you to reduce the impact
of audio on your phone’s battery life. If you take a look in Settings > Music, you can also set a volume limit and turn the EQ off to save even more power.
Turn off iCloud
Automatically
backing up to iCloud can drain your battery and eat through your data
allowance. It’s a useful feature for backing up precious photos, but
there might be a few things being backed up that you don’t really care
about or need. Take a look in Settings > iCloud and toggle off anything you don’t want.
Kill “Hey Siri”
This
feature is an unnecessary battery drain if you don’t really use it,
mostly because your iPhone will be listening for “Hey Siri” whenever
it’s charging. To turn it off, go to Settings > General > Siri and turn Allow “Hey Siri” off.
Don’t bother closing apps
A
lot of people imagine that the apps listed when they double tap the
Home button are actually still open in the background and using battery
life, but they usually aren’t. Outside of Background App Refresh,
which we’ll look at soon, the vast majority of apps are not doing
anything when they’re not in use. You can actually end up draining more
battery by double tapping the Home button and quitting them all the
time, so don’t do it.
Turn off Background App Refresh
You can start your journey of iPhone battery discovery by going to Settings > General > Usage.
As a quick test, try making a note of the remaining standby and usage
times, then tap the sleep/wake button and wait 10 minutes. Then, go back
to Settings > General > Usage and you should find standby
time has increased by 10 minutes. If it hasn’t, then something is
keeping your iPhone from resting, and it’s likely an app.
Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh
and take a look at the list. Do you really need all those apps updating
themselves in the background and draining your battery life? Be
ruthless and turn off all the apps you don’t need to update
automatically. Remember, they’ll still update and work as normal when
you fire them up, they just won’t keep running when you’re not using
them. If you find that you don’t like the change, you can always head
back into this section and toggle the apps back on again.
Switch Push Email to Fetch
Do
you really need to get every email as soon as it comes in? Maybe you’ve
got a secondary email account that isn’t so important. Go into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and switch from Push to either Fetch or Manual. With Fetch,
you can set an interval, such as every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and so
on, for your iPhone to check for new email. The longer you make the
interval, the less battery you’ll be using. With Manual, it will only check for new email when you open the app.
Kill Push notifications from apps
Some apps will send you notifications that you don’t really need. Go to Settings > Notification Center and look under Include. Tap on any apps that you don’t need notifications from and choose None under the Alert Style, and then toggle Show in Navigation Center to off and Show on Lock Screen to off.
Turn off Automatic Downloads
You
can have your iPhone update Music, Apps, and iOS automatically, but it
will eat a lot of battery life. Your iPhone might also choose an
inopportune moment to update everything. You can save power and battery
life by going into Settings > iTunes & App Store and sliding Use Cellular Data
to off, so it only updates on Wi-Fi. You’ll save even more if you just
turn the automatic downloads off altogether and update on your own
schedule.
Reduce screen brightness
The screen drains battery faster than anything else and the brighter it is, the faster it drains. Go to Settings > Wallpaper & Brightness and turn Auto-Brightness
off. Then, set your brightness to the lowest setting that still looks
readable. You might have to tweak it from time to time, but you’ll save a
lot of juice this way.
Turn off vibrations
Do
you really need your iPhone to vibrate? It will eat up some battery
life and it’s probably only necessary when you have your iPhone on
silent. Go to Settings > Sound and you can toggle Vibrate on Ring to off.
Reduce Auto-Lock time
When you stop using it, your iPhone takes a set amount of time to turn the screen off. You can change it in Settings > General > Auto-Lock. Set it as low as you can without it becoming annoying, and you’ll save a decent amount of battery life over tie.
Turn off AirDrop
You
don’t need AirDrop turned on all the time either, so swipe up from the
bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center and turn it off
until you actually need it.
Stop Location Services
It’s
debatable how helpful it is to have your iPhone tracking your location.
What we can say for sure is that it drains the battery faster. Head
into Settings > Privacy > Location Services and turn off any app you don’t feel needs to be tracking you. You can also go further in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services, where you can certainly afford to turn off Frequent Locations, Diagnostics & Usage, and Location-Based iAds.
Turn off Bluetooth
Bluetooth doesn’t need to be on unless you are using it. Bring up the Control Center and toggle it off until you need it.
Turn off unnecessary animations
There
are two obvious things on your iPhone that are purely aesthetic, but
impact your battery life negatively: the parallax effect and dynamic
wallpapers. To get rid of the unnecessary parallax effect, go to Settings > General > Accessibility and turn Reduce Motion on. Next go to Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness > Choose Wallpaper and pick something from Stills
or a photo. The dynamic wallpapers and the parallax effect are animated
by information from the iPhone’s sensors about how you’re holding and
moving the phone. These effects inevitably drain battery life.
Be prepared — download ahead of time
A
lot of music and movie streaming services give you the option to
download for offline listening or viewing. If you stream content using
your cellular data connection, it will eat your battery fast, not to
mention your data allowance. It’s better to use Wi-Fi to stream if you
have to, but it’s even better to download the content you want ahead of
time. If you plug your iPhone into iTunes and download content at home,
your battery will go a lot further.
Edit Spotlight Search
By
default, the Spotlight Search function indexes and searches through
every item on your iPhone. You can save a little battery, filter your
searches, and potentially get faster results, if you tell it to drop
irrelevant items. Go into Settings > General > Spotlight Search and remove anything on the list that you don’t use or want to search.
Always use Wi-Fi
If
you’re in a place with a Wi-Fi network that you can use, such as your
workplace or your home, then make sure that Wi-Fi is toggled on. If you
always use cellular data, you’ll run through your data allowance quickly
and drain your battery much faster, especially when you’re indoors
where the network has to search for a stronger connection. When you
leave the Wi-Fi zone, make sure that you toggle Wi-Fi off because you
don’t want your iPhone constantly searching for a new Wi-Fi network.
Put Airplane mode on
If
you don’t need to make calls for a while, or you notice that the area
you are in has terrible reception, then just switch your iPhone to
Airplane mode. There’s no point having it searching for your network if
you’re on the subway or somewhere else you know you can’t get a signal.
If you don’t turn Airplane mode on, the constant searching will drain
the battery fast.
Next page: 5 more iPhone battery life tips
Turn off 4G
If
you do a lot of downloading or streaming over your cellular data
network, you might be making good use of the faster speeds offered by
4G, but 3G is enough for most people and it won’t drain your battery
anywhere near as fast. Go into Settings > Cellular and toggle Enable 4G to off.
Kill Siri’s Raise to Speak
This
feature, which activates Siri when you raise your iPhone to your face,
will eat a little battery when your iPhone tries to figure out that you
want to use Siri. You can always speak to Siri by holding down the Home
button, so you should turn Raise to Speak off. Go to Settings > General > Siri.
Get an external battery pack or case
There
are loads of potential options on the market that will charge your
iPhone up when you’re out and about. If you’ve got the room to carry a
battery pack with you, it could save you in a jam. Or, you could check
out the best iPhone cases and pick one with a built-in battery.
Check for updates
Each
new iOS update generally fixes a few bugs and improves performance.
Sometimes, it can improve battery life. Make sure your software is up to
date by going to Settings > General > Software Update.
Get a battery test
If
you’re suspicious that there may be something wrong with your battery,
then go to your nearest Apple Store and request an extended battery life
test. They’ll be able to tell you if there’s a problem or if it’s just
down to your usage.
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