A long-lasting battery life on a phone is essential.
When aniPhoneages, its battery suffers, leading to a shorter life.
If you feel youriPhonehas not lasted as long as it used to, follow the tips below.
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They wont undo the battery damage butll ensure you get the most out of each charge.
While thats helpful, it constantly drains your battery in the background.
Imagine how much battery that would take up if your phones loaded with apps.
Turning the background app refresh off is okay since they can always refresh upon launch.
Go to General > Background App Refresh > Background App Refresh (again) and choose Off.
Youre wasting considerable battery by always sharing your location with certain apps.
You should change that to only when youre using that app.
When you see one, press it and pick While Using the App from the list.
If you feel that the app doesnt need your location, feel free to pick Never.
This means that to optimize your iPhones performance, you gotta watch its temperature.
If youre out in the cold, keep it as warm as you could tucked inside your jackets pocket.
Turn Low Power Mode On
This is an obvious one.
Low Power Mode reduces background activity like auto-downloads and mail fetch and reduces your displays refresh rate.
This makes your phone less power-hungry.
You still get all your notifications, and your phone works normally.
Low Power Mode automatically activates when your battery falls below 20%.
Features like Wi-Fi and Airdrop drain your battery by constantly looking for connections nearby.
For instance, turning all of these off is a good habit when hitting the bed.
Itll all be greyed out if youre successful.
it’s possible for you to also turn them off in controls.
Go to each menu (Wi-Fi, tweaks, Bluetooth) and turn their respective toggle switches off.
For Airdrop, go to prefs > General > Airdrop and tap on Receiving Off.
Turn Brightness Down
Theres a reason why Low Power Mode makes your display less bright.
The higher the brightness, the less your battery will last.
Unless youre outdoors and absolutely need all those nits, turn your brightness down in the Control Center.
Turn Auto-Lock On
The longer your display stays on, the more battery youll lose.
Turn auto-lock on if you always turn off your display when putting your phone down manually.
Youd need to go to prefs > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock.
Once you see all the options, change it from Never to an option of your choice.
Anything two minutes or under should be fine.
If Auto-Lock is greyed out, thats because your Low Power Mode is activated.
Youre automatically defaulted to 30 seconds, which is even better.
But its helpful to have this information handy when you want your display to last longer.
Update iOS
Think of this as the turn it off and on again hack.
It works for everything, frommaking your iPhone run fasterto extending its battery life.
New iOS versions bring bug fixes and updates that help improve your phones overall performance.
Navigating to configs > General > Software Update will tell you whether or not you gotta update.
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