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22 Tips to Make Your iPhone 16's Battery Last Longer
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Even stranger given iPhone will detect other people’s AirTags to report their location through the Find My network.
There are many people who like to use their iPhone out of the box with factory settings.
Good article, don’t understand criticisms from other users here. Will save it for later when I get one of these newer iPhones.
One of the most stupid, useless and draining features out of all these if background app refresh. Always made ANY of my iPhones hot and drained battery in seconds. Felt like Android. I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t make AI take care of the system optimizations and disable all the features user doesn’t use, it is so simple but would make user experience much better.
Something similar has been around in Samsung’s ONE UI for many years already, they automatically disable apps and features that are not used and also limit the background activity of the ones that drain battery. This behavior for sure can be disabled, but most users prefer not to and even take it to extremes and disable more than AI does. System override is still required these days to achieve the given result
One of the most stupid, useless and draining features out of all these if background app refresh. Always made ANY of my iPhones hot and drained battery in seconds. Felt like Android. I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t make AI take care of the system optimizations and disable all the features user doesn’t use, it is so simple but would make user experience much better.
Something similar has been around in Samsung’s ONE UI for many years already, they automatically disable apps and features that are not used and also limit the background activity of the ones that drain battery. This behavior for sure can be disabled, but most users prefer not to and even take it to extremes and disable more than AI does. System override is still required these days to achieve the given result
I agree, but I blame other manufacturers for being stupid copycats. Apple provided something that still helps them to fool customers and sell batteries for 100$ each, and other guys like Google and Samsung just decided to do the same thing. Also they cannot innovate and never heard about GoPro probably that can be both waterproof (like, real waterproof up to 10m not the lies such as “water resistant ip68”) and even have removable storage (something that new Androids no more have, they gotta sell storage and earn money!).
Greed, greed and greed again
Since I only use an airtag when traveling, I stick the airtag in a metallic bag when not in use. Find Me on the iphone stops being one of the top battery users. Saves me the trouble of looking up how to reset an airtag to pair it.
You are wrong about the airtag, it does impact battery life if you believe the Apple battery app report.
Can't tell if Macrumours works for Apple as a Customer Service.. And if a website has to tell users how to manage their phone battery then we have a problem with the product...
And this is one of the worst posts I’ve ever seen on MR.
No one told you to switch off everything. They show you the features that drain battery so you can decide which features you don’t need and turn them off.
Stay away from sites like MacRumors if you are offended by articles that give you useful tips.
If this issue would be only the end of the list, but... here we go again:
• Battery Drain high
• Stock Price Volatility high
• Cost of Unsuccessful Innovation Attempts high
• Chinese Influence on Company high
• Security Flaws high
• Serious Issues with New Devices high
• EU Regulatory Pressure high
• Unfinished Dev Jobs high
• C-Level Fluctuation high
• Software Deployment Quality low
• Customer Satisfaction low
• Innovation low
• Problem solving by Support low (including some 2nd Level as well)
...
These are consistent attacks on 's Core Brand Values.
Well, I don't know what you learned from it. But. I am selling .
• Battery Drain high
• Stock Price Volatility high
• Cost of Unsuccessful Innovation Attempts high
• Chinese Influence on Company high
• Security Flaws high
• Serious Issues with New Devices high
• EU Regulatory Pressure high
• Unfinished Dev Jobs high
• C-Level Fluctuation high
• Software Deployment Quality low
• Customer Satisfaction low
• Innovation low
• Problem solving by Support low (including some 2nd Level as well)
...
These are consistent attacks on 's Core Brand Values.
Well, I don't know what you learned from it. But. I am selling .
I think they did that.
According to the Apple site the iPhone 6 was 6.9mm thick. The iPhone 16 Pro Max is 8.25mm.
The 6 was rated at 11 hours of video playback. The 16 PM is rated at 33 hours.
I use my 16 Pro Max all day and the battery has been excellent.
You suggest that we should micromanage our phones to squeeze more usage time out of them. That sounds like an interesting way to live. In my opinion, it’s no longer normal (and in some ways even unhealthy) if a user has to worry about such things. The original idea behind the iPhone was that there wouldn’t be too many options and choices, and the user experience would flow as smoothly and effortlessly as possible. Current iPhones are starting to have so many (unnecessary) features and settings that it’s beginning to resemble the control panel of an old airplane. We’re not far from the Android mess.
Same here with mine. I'm feeling really steamed I have nothing to complain about here. Wah...
So buy an iPhone 16 pro max and due to bugs etc., to ensure you get a halfway reasonable battery life, disable anything that made you want to buy it. Am I ever glad I didn't buy one and stuck with my 15 pro max. iOS issue i dont think are confined to just the 16 either. My 15 has also had some annoying stutters and freezes that iOS 17 didnt display
What a fail lol.. remove/disable all new features if you want great battery life lol.
A better solution: buy a cheap powerbank with pd (power delivery). There are some really cheap ones that are fantastic. For example, Monoprice has a 10,000 mAh bank for $18, 20,000 mAh for $23. Compact, works great, will fit anywhere, easy to carry. I love their small and simple banks that take zero effort.
Or if you want a little more wattage, look at INIU's offerings, great powerbanks that are inexpensive and will last many years. Once you pick up a couple cheap ones, you'll regularly use them and it is great inexpensive tech. Keep your iPhone features on, and use a bank.
Or if you want a little more wattage, look at INIU's offerings, great powerbanks that are inexpensive and will last many years. Once you pick up a couple cheap ones, you'll regularly use them and it is great inexpensive tech. Keep your iPhone features on, and use a bank.
The problem is that once you start disabling all these features then it does not become an iPhone no more, and makes you rethink why you spend all that money on a phone that you won't be able to use all the features throughout the day
You know all those cool things your iPhone can do? Just don’t do them, dummy!
Not to mention these features are already designed to minimize battery impact, if I were a betting man I’d put $10 on disabling a couple of them not giving you a noticeable difference in battery life
Also if you’re strapped for battery low power mode already temporarily disables a bunch of them and gives you a noticeable improvement without fiddling around in settings
So basically turn off every cool feature the iPhone offers. Got it.
It's in how you use your phone, I think. I keep all notifications off except iMessage and calls, and I always lay my phone face down.