13 tips for longer iPhone battery life

Friday afternoon. After a long day of work, it’s finally here: weekend! But first, have a drink to celebrate the end of the week. It’s so cozy that you decide to stay a little longer, so you call your friend to say you’ll be late. And yes, your phone has a dead battery. To home anyway, then?

It is perhaps the greatest first-world problem of the 21st century: a dead battery. Earlier we wrote that Apple deliberately degrades the performance of iPhones to make your battery last longer. This met them with much criticism, allowing iPhone owners to have their battery replaced at a steep discount. But you don’t have to have your entire battery replaced to make your phone last longer. We have 13 tips for improving your iPhone’s battery life.

We discuss:

• Screen
• Settings
• Apps
• Additional tips to preserve your iPhone’s battery

Screen

1. The iPhone’s screen is by far the biggest energy consumer. Make sure your screen does not stay on too long when you are not using the device. At
   Settings -> Display and Brightness
   set the auto lock to 30 seconds.
2. To ensure that the brightness of your screen is never too high and therefore uses too much energy, you can have the brightness automatically adjusted based on your ambient light. You do this at Settings -> display and text size -> accessibility->display and text size->adjust automatically
3. Your phone’s background also determines your battery life. Apple’s iOS lets you choose between still and dynamic backgrounds. The dynamic background requires much more energy than a still photograph. You can set this at
   Settings -> Background
   .
4. iOS uses blur effects, for example, when you have apps in a folder and then you open that folder. You can turn off this blur effect, which again benefits your battery life. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Display and Text Size ->Increase Contrast.

Settings

1. Turn off your Bluetooth if you are not using Bluetooth devices. But then actually turn it off. You don’t do this from the control panel (then it doesn’t turn off completely), but from your settings.
   Settings -> Bluetooth
   .
2. If you are engaged in a particular activity, such as a meeting or exercising, put your iPhone on “Do Not Disturb” mode. This prevents the screen from lighting up with every activity on your phone.
   Swipe out the control panel -> click on the half moon .
   .
3. Your iPhone’s vibration function is also a real power eater. We understand that you do want to know when you get a message in, but for some applications you might miss the vibration.
   Institutions -> Hearing and Feeling
   .
4. A personal hotspot in handy when you have no wifi for a while but still want to use your laptop. Be sure to turn off the personal hotspot completely when you are no longer using it.
   Settings -> Personal hotspot
   .
5. Turn off your Wi-Fi as soon as you leave a Wi-Fi zone. This is because your iPhone is constantly looking for networks to connect to. This also takes a lot out of your battery. Just make sure you turn off wifi completely, just like with Bluetooth.
   Settings -> Wifi
   .

Tip: Discover hidden settings for your iPhone

Apps

1. The apps you have installed on your iPhone are always retrieving new information. They are refreshed in the background. Make sure the apps you almost never use don’t refresh in the background. When you open the application, the info refreshes automatically.
   Settings -> General -> Refresh on background
   .
2. The apps on your iPhone are updated from time to time. You can do this manually, or your phone can do it automatically. It just doesn’t take into account your battery percentage in doing so. So turn off automatic updating to prevent your device from draining your battery at an unfortunate time.
   Settings -> iTunes Store and App Store – disable> Updates
   .
3. Swiping briefly from below takes you to the multitask screen. This is where you can close apps. DO NOT. Apple itself has announced that shutting down your apps costs rather than saves energy.
4. Your email. After your screen, this is perhaps the biggest culprit when it comes to short battery life. In fact, the mail app is checking every moment of the day to see if anyone has sent you any new digital mail. Turn this off or set a longer refresh time, such as half an hour. Settings -> Mail -> Accounts -> New data -> Turn push ‘Off’ or choose another (longer) time.

Do apps no longer open at all on your iPhone? Then read; Apps no longer open on your iPhone? Here’s what you need to do!

Additional tips to preserve your iPhone’s battery

1. Go to Settings->Battery->Battery Condition and Charging. Here you can see the maximum capacity of your battery. Is this below 80%? Then your battery probably needs replacement.

2. This feature learns your charging habits and prevents your battery from staying full on the charger unnecessarily long. This keeps your battery life longer. Turn it on or off at: Settings -> Battery -> Battery condition and charging.

3. 5G is convenient, but consumes more energy than 4G. You can adjust this through Settings ->Mobile Network -> Options-> Voice and Data. For example, choose only 4G or “5G Automatic” here for a balance between speed and battery.

4. Sometimes it also helps to recalibrate your battery. Want to know how to do this safely? Then read; TIP: Recalibrating the battery of your iphone or ipad.

Now if all these tips have been of no use and your iPhone is breaking down every so often, look for an iPhone repair? If so, your battery may be in need of replacement. Stop by
one of our branches
for a new battery and your iPhone will be back to normal!