Is that ON by default?? By the way what is that setting called? I looked for it under "Fitness" but didn't see any obvious one for tracking.
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22 Tips to Make Your iPhone 16's Battery Last Longer
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thanks. found it. Odd that searching for fitness didn't return that. It appears to be off by default which is good which means that if someone has it on then likely they are actually using it (or once upon a time were).
Missing Option: Let iPhone manage the iPhone battery. Live your life.
Might as well put the phone away and go back to flip phones if we need to do all these.
Enjoy your iPhone and throw these tips out the window or sweep them under the rug. ✅
Not true. No one was as stressed about the battery when it was user-replaceable as everyone is now. When it drained too fast, people just bought a new battery, installed it on their phone and were done with it. Now everyone is stressed about it and we have whole threads such as this one because they can’t replace it themselves and have to go to the manufacturer or its authorized service centers and pay more to have it replaced.
This is an extremely bizarre list of advice.
I’m perplexed by how anyone would believe push email is a battery killer. Your phone always retains a connection to apple’s push notification server… changing it to fetch would actually be worse (marginally) for the battery since it has to do an extra check on top of what it already does constantly for every app.
Live Activities are also just reskinned push notifications, so it would make far more sense to just revoke the permission from an individual offending app.
The AirTag one is probably the weirdest one to throw in since it isn’t even ”supported” by random conjecture like the iPhone mirroring one is, it’s just purely made up. If your phone can communicate with an Apple Watch constantly and not have it noticeably impact battery, I think it can scan for Bluetooth and upload a location check to the sever a couple of times per day without the user noticing anything.
This overall reads more like a trap to trick the non technically literate into breaking their phones than legitimate battery advice.
I would say start with 18, then consider 19/14/13/2 ONLY on apps you find to be unreasonable with your amount of usage vs their consumption. 3 is advice even given by Apple in their developer docs, 16 is obvious, 11 can help. Everything else is bunk.
I’m perplexed by how anyone would believe push email is a battery killer. Your phone always retains a connection to apple’s push notification server… changing it to fetch would actually be worse (marginally) for the battery since it has to do an extra check on top of what it already does constantly for every app.
Live Activities are also just reskinned push notifications, so it would make far more sense to just revoke the permission from an individual offending app.
The AirTag one is probably the weirdest one to throw in since it isn’t even ”supported” by random conjecture like the iPhone mirroring one is, it’s just purely made up. If your phone can communicate with an Apple Watch constantly and not have it noticeably impact battery, I think it can scan for Bluetooth and upload a location check to the sever a couple of times per day without the user noticing anything.
This overall reads more like a trap to trick the non technically literate into breaking their phones than legitimate battery advice.
I would say start with 18, then consider 19/14/13/2 ONLY on apps you find to be unreasonable with your amount of usage vs their consumption. 3 is advice even given by Apple in their developer docs, 16 is obvious, 11 can help. Everything else is bunk.
You're implying that people are stressed about their battery because it has gotten old and won't hold a charge as well and so need a new one That's only a small percentage of those stressing. The larger group are those that either use their phone a lot and/or are having some bug or such that is overtaxing the phone. And of course most people aren't stressing about their battery life at all and get through each day without problem. And for those that do have an old battery it's a simple trip to the Apple Store to get them replace the battery for you.
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I remember seeing people complain about the 15 Pro Max battery life in tech sphere on twitter last year only to learn most of them had that stupid 80% charge cap on since day one.
I'm still using a 12 mini so I can only laugh at what people with the newest biggest phones consider to be "horrible battery life"
I'm still using a 12 mini so I can only laugh at what people with the newest biggest phones consider to be "horrible battery life"
Set a small file size image as your wallpaper! Also, it would be nice to have a cool wallpaper that uses a lot of black! There is a possibility that you will be able to save your life in a situation where you have to send out an SOS when the battery is 1%!
Had to dig out my external battery pack, which I haven’t had to use in the last couple of years.
AOD is only useful for people who like to experience with "the fastest way to drain your iPhone battery"
It's the most useless feature ever imo.
It's 2024. You shouldn't need tips to make the battery last longer. The software should be doing everything. At most a toggle switch to say you prefer to operate in battery optimized mode.
When traveling to distant locations that you know nothing about it is great to have a bunch of tips like this.
I know most, but enjoyed seeing it posted. More interesting than sales at Amazon. IMO. Currently I'm in Tasmania and Google maps has been busy and I'm taking tons of photos. Energy saver mode and no widgets are the two top things that seem to drastically help.
Edit: oh yeah, I don't ever use the always on screen (in general).
I know most, but enjoyed seeing it posted. More interesting than sales at Amazon. IMO. Currently I'm in Tasmania and Google maps has been busy and I'm taking tons of photos. Energy saver mode and no widgets are the two top things that seem to drastically help.
Edit: oh yeah, I don't ever use the always on screen (in general).
lost it, some say. Maybe they got a point:
This battery issue is the favorite Sam&Sung Fanboy joke and after 15 years... still 100% true.
Think about that, how is that even possible to maintain something like that for this long?
Leaving Apple was the right choice, thank you Sir Jonathan Paul Ive 🫡.
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*The 11 Pro was the last real major design and feature upgrade to an Iphone, the very last iPhone Jony designed & basically created.
This battery issue is the favorite Sam&Sung Fanboy joke and after 15 years... still 100% true.
Think about that, how is that even possible to maintain something like that for this long?
Leaving Apple was the right choice, thank you Sir Jonathan Paul Ive 🫡.
But maybe Jony can come back now as an iCEO...?
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*The 11 Pro was the last real major design and feature upgrade to an Iphone, the very last iPhone Jony designed & basically created.
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Tip 23:
Write a bad review on Amazon, Facebook or Reddit and spread the word everywhere that Apple is incapable or unwilling to deliver products that customers are happy with.
Don't take part in victim blaming, but be part of a movement. As long as Apple doesn't hear it (namely indirectly through low sales), nothing will change.
Write a bad review on Amazon, Facebook or Reddit and spread the word everywhere that Apple is incapable or unwilling to deliver products that customers are happy with.
Don't take part in victim blaming, but be part of a movement. As long as Apple doesn't hear it (namely indirectly through low sales), nothing will change.
Lots of ‘might’ in this article (and not the Thor kind), with weak anecdotal support for suggestions. Sure, let me just cripple all the useful things added to the software and hardware in recent years.