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.

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 -> General -> Accessibility -> Custom Display
   .
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 -> 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
   .

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. Pressing your home button twice (or swiping briefly from below on the iPhone X) will take you to the multitasking 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.

With the next update to iOS, Apple is coming out with a lot of
changes
In terms of your battery life. This gives you a much better understanding of the health of your battery and allows you to disable slowing down your phone for longer battery life.

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!