How to Save iPhone Battery

It takes very little to save money and time on your iPhone battery. Small changes, which then become easy habits, yield two benefits: lower power consumption (an iPhone battery lasts about 500 charges) and less time wasted charging.

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Turn off automatic Wi-Fi

Always activating the setting Wi-Fi Automatically, the phone will continue to search for open networks to connect to, even when we're away from home or the office. Given that many are protected by a password we obviously don't know, this is pointless unless we're in a location where we know the network we want to connect to.

Turn off Bluetooth and AirDrop

Do this when you don't need them. Simply swipe down, bring up the Control Center, and tap the respective icons.

Disable automatic updates

To stop apps from automatically installing new updates, go to Settings, iTunes & App Store, and turn off Automatic Updates and Downloads. App updates will then need to be done manually.

Disable app location

Location data is used by many apps. For example, social networks like Twitter and Facebook, as well as chat apps, ask for permission to access your phone or tablet's GPS data. In fact, what these apps do with this data is generally quite useless and wastes battery life. You can delete it by accessing Privacy and then Location Services for each app.

Disable background tasks

Reducing the number of installed apps that scan for data in the background to a bare minimum—perhaps just the messaging app and the weather app—will save a lot of battery life. You can also disable them altogether if that's what you want. Go to Settings, General, Background App Refresh.

Using the energy saving function

Using the iPhone 's Low Power Mode automatically reduces background activity, such as downloads and email updates. You can resume Low Power Mode after charging.

What to do with emails

If you have two email accounts or don't use it often for quick exchanges, you can play with your email settings to check for new emails at regular intervals (for example, every 15 or 30 minutes). To do this, go to Settings, Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Get New Data.

Turn off auto-brightness

Again, do this when you don't need this option. It can be disabled by going to Settings, Display & Brightness, and setting it to the minimum necessary. When you want to increase it, the Control Center (swipe down) comes in handy.

Turn off push notifications

Not all apps need to send you push notifications. Messaging and email apps are essential, but games, for example, often use it regularly without providing any useful information to the user. To select which apps can send you these notifications, go to Settings, Notifications.

How to save battery life on your iPhone