It is clear to everyone that iPhone In short, it requires more frequent charging than, say, the good old Nokia 3310 from 2000. But that doesn't mean we don't care about our phone lasting as long as possible. In today's article, we'll take a closer look at the settings and measures that will help you extend the battery life of your iPhone.
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Always up to date
A kind of universal cure for everything, from poor battery life to security bugs, is undoubtedly regular operating system updates. In each new version of the operating system iOS namely Apple it brings significant improvements to users, including solutions to save battery life, so this step is not worth neglecting.
Beware of extreme temperatures
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In both the summer and winter months, articles describing how users should take care of their Apple devices in extreme temperatures are evergreen on our website. Advice that you have iPhone hide it in a poppy seed bag, it may seem ridiculous, but the truth is that extreme temperatures really do not have a positive effect on battery life. Not in vain Apple for all its devices, it also states the optimum operating temperatures, which should not be exceeded. For the iPhone, iPad and iPod, the comfort zone for the device that is currently in use is between 0°C and 35°C.
Optimizing display brightness settings
Pro To extend the battery life of your iPhone, you can also take certain steps in your phone's settings. One of them is to lower the display brightness. Some users have their iPhone's display brightness set to maximum, and they resort to lowering it in Control Center temporarily and intermittently when they need to slow down battery drain. But you can also set automatic brightness on your iPhone. Just launch Settings -> Disclosure -> Display and text size, where you activate the “Automatic brightness” option at the very bottom. MaxOf course, you can achieve maximum energy savings by manually reducing the brightness to minismall level.
Battery saving mode
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Battery Saver Mode probably doesn't need to be reminded to any of our readers, and everyone is probably familiar with this feature, but for the record, we'll mention it in our article. Battery Saver Mode is an easy way to extend your iPhone's battery life when its battery percentage drops significantly. If you have this mode activated on your iPhone, you'll receive a notification when the battery charge drops below 20%, and you can easily activate Low Power Mode with a single tap. However, you can also turn it on at any time in Control Center, or in Settings -> Battery . However, the cost of activating it is a temporary restriction on background activity, such as downloading files and mail. You will have to perform these tasks manually.
Background updates
Pro To improve your iPhone's battery life, you can also disable the feature that allows apps on your smartphone to refresh app content in the background. Refreshing can also have a part in how fast and how much your battery is used, so if you want to extend your iPhone's battery life a little, you can turn this activity off. Just run Settings -> In general -> Background updates. After clicking on this item, you can then choose whether background application updates will occur when connected to Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi and mobile data, or whether updates will not occur at all. In case of complete deactivation, however, it is necessary to take into account that the application will have to be started manually to obtain current data.
Location services, notifications and other little things
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To optimize your iPhone's battery life, you can also turn off location services, which have a certain impact on consumption. You can do this in Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services , where you can either turn off location services completely or adjust their settings for each application separately. We'll stay in Settings for a while - this time we'll play with notifications, which can also - albeit slightly - affect your iPhone's battery life. Notification settings offer a lot of options, you can customize them in Settings -> Notifications , where you can choose for each individual application how (and whether) you want to receive notifications.
Various effects and animations are also among the details that can affect your iPhone's battery life. You can turn these off in Settings -> Disclosure -> Movement, where you disable items "Limit movement" and "Play message effects”. Changing your wallpaper from dynamic to static can also slightly affect your iPhone's battery life - just go to Settings -> Wallpaper -> Choose a new wallpaper and select a static image. For iPhones with OLED displays, we recommend maxTo save battery, set Dark Mode and use it. 100% black wallpaper. These displays display black by deactivating pixels on the display, thereby saving energy. We have discussed this issue in more detail in this articleThe last option is to deactivate the “Hey, Siri". Siri by default, it works in the background all the time – in simple terms, it waits for the user to address it. The “Hey, Siri” you turn off in Settings -> In general -> Siri and search, where you disable the “Wait for me to say ‘Hey, Siri''.
Is the article about extending the life of the battery (as the title says) or about extending the life of the iPhone even at the cost of a not-so-gentle draining of the battery (e.g. with an energy-saving mode almost to zero, which was not recommended in another article)?