8 Tips to Extend Your iPhone's Battery Life

[MacRumors]

With New Year's Eve and New Year's Day approaching, many iPhone users may need to get the most out of their iPhone's battery life for extended parties and other festivities. We've rounded up some helpful battery tips that you might want to put into action to ensure your iPhone keeps working long into the night.

1. Disable Haptic Keyboard Feedback

If you've turned on the keyboard option that provides haptic feedback when you tap the on-screen keys, you might want to turn it off temporarily because it can affect battery life.

Here's how to turn it off:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Tap on Sounds & Haptics.
3. Tap on Keyboard Feedback.
4. Toggle off Haptic.

2. Turn Off Proximity AirDrop Sharing

When you hold two iPhones running iOS 17 together, or an iPhone running iOS 17 and an Apple Watch running watchOS 10.1 or later, the iPhone initiates a proximity-based AirDrop or contact transfer protocol. If you're continually triggering this, it can drain battery, so if your iPhone is near many other iPhones and you're getting the AirDrop interface over and over again, you should turn it off.

To do so, go to Settings > General > AirDrop and toggle off "Bringing Devices Together."

3. Use Offline Maps

If you're traveling somewhere, you can save some battery life if you download Apple Maps for offline usage, a feature available on iPhones running iOS 17 or later. Offline maps are especially useful if you're going somewhere with poor cellular connectivity because you can get turn-by-turn directions without the battery drain. Just make sure to turn cellular off in spotty areas.

Downloading a map is as simple as searching for a location, tapping on the download button, and selecting the area of the map to download. We have a dedicated how-to that walks you through all of the steps.

4. Turn Off Live Activities

Live Activities let apps keep an ongoing notification on the Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island, which can cause noticeable battery drain.

Live Activities can be disabled by following these steps:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Go to Face ID & Passcode.
3. Enter your passcode to unlock the iPhone.
4. Scroll down and toggle off Live Activities.

This will prevent Live Activities from showing up on the Lock Screen, but you'll want to take this one step further. In the individual app sections in the Settings app, you can disable Live Activities on an app-by-app basis, or avoid using Live Activities features within apps.

5. Turn Off Always-On Display

If you have an iPhone 14 Pro or an iPhone 15 Pro, the always-on display leaves the time, your wallpaper, widgets, and Live Activities visible on the Lock Screen even when your iPhone is locked.

The display uses a 1Hz refresh rate to preserve battery, and the display turns off when the iPhone is in a pocket, but always-on display still drains battery faster than no always-on display.

You can turn off the Always-On display by following these steps:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Tap on Display & Brightness.
3. Tap on Always On Display.
4. Toggle off Always On Display.

It's not entirely clear just how much battery life the always-on display drains because it's going to vary from use case to use case, but even if it's only a few percent, it can be worth turning off.

6. Use Focus Modes

Apple's built-in Focus option can cut down on the number of notifications that you're receiving, and fewer notifications means less opportunity for apps to wake up your display and cause battery drain.

Focus modes let you choose which apps and people can send you notifications and when, so during work hours you can make sure you're only getting work notifications, and during personal time, you can limit your work notifications. You can limit notifications when driving, when you're asleep, when you're working out, and in any other scenario you can think of.

You'll still get all of your notifications when the Focus mode ends, but all in one alert rather than multiple. Turning off unwanted notifications from apps is still the best method for saving battery life, but Focus modes let you keep your notifications while still cutting down on the number that you receive.

Apple made Focus modes relatively easy to set up, but it still takes some work to get everything running, so we have a dedicated Focus guide. You can find all of the Focus features in the Focus section of the Settings app.

7. Limit When and How Often Apps Can Access Location

It's always good to check in on privacy and access settings to make sure apps and services aren't doing things you don't want them to be doing.

Limiting the apps that have access to your location and how often apps can access that data can save battery life.

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Choose Privacy & Security.
3. Tap Location Services.
4. Review the list and edit settings by tapping on the name of each app in the list.

You have four possible choices for location settings for each app, though not all four choices will always be available for every app depending on what it does. You can select the following: Never, Ask Next Time Or When I Share, While Using the App, and Always.

Never will prevent an app from ever accessing your location, and unless there's a specific need for an app to know where you are, such as a mapping app, settin... Click here to read rest of article

Article Link: 8 Tips to Extend Your iPhone's Battery Life

 

[waltman]

Tips on how not to experience iPhone!

 

[I7guy]

Number 7 is the most pernicious.

 

[jamezcua]

8. Turn off your phone

 

[chanerz]

Just turn off your iPhone and your battery will last for sure.

 

[Flash1420]

Or they could reduce the number of cameras or the camera size on the back and give a bigger battery. I would rather have a bigger battery than those huge cameras. I miss the old days where there was only 1 camera on the back. Not everyone is a photographer, some just need a camera that can take decent pictures.

 

[contacos]

I created a shortcut to automatically turn on airplane mode when I enter my home network (WiFi calling is a thing) and to turn it off when I leave the WiFi network.

I made another one to automatically turn on low power mode when night mode turns on after sun set because that is also roughly the time of the day where my battery is around 50%.

I also have background refresh completely OFF because it never made a difference to me (functionality-wise)

 

[thegerman]

9. don’t buy a phone

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Turn the screen brightness down to zero, put it in airplane mode and leave it at home.

 

[targa88]

I created a shortcut to automatically turn on airplane mode when I enter my home network (WiFi calling is a thing) and to turn it off when I leave the WiFi network.

I made another one to automatically turn on low power mode when night mode turns on after sun set because that is also roughly the time of the day where my battery is around 50%.

I also have background refresh completely OFF because it never made a difference to me (functionality-wise)

Care to enlighten the masses on your two aforementioned shortcuts (steps for set up)

 

[Apple_Robert]

Haptic feedback for the keyboard doesn't even register on battery usage. If you want to talk about battery killers. address the members here who are social media addicts and spend every spare moment they have on their phones. Turning off a bunch of switches doesn't even tough the real battery hit happening with forum members. The other aspect deals with people who seem to feel that charing their phone once a day is passe'.

 

[vegetassj4]

I just turn mine off when not in use, kinda like those cars that stop the engine when you are at a stoplight/sign etc.

 

[Shirasaki]

I just turn mine off when not in use, kinda like those cars that stop the engine when you are at a stoplight/sign etc.

Tho turning off and back on frequently can damage the circuitry more than you imagine, which can lead to premature failure.

With that being said however, I seriously doubt iPhone today can truly be turned off without removing the battery.

 

[jz0309]

and lastly, don't hang out on MR and stop posting

Seriously: Thanks MR!

 

[Mr. Nice]

Number 7 is the most pernicious.

Location consumes a lot of battery.
It annoys me a lot that e.g. weather widgets absolutely need the location or the weather widget on the lock screen.

I would also like to be able to set the intervals at which apps are allowed to locate (every hour, every 3 hours, etc.).

 

[antiprotest]

Leave on everything that you want on. Don't hesitate. You paid good money for all these features. Use all of them and a few more. Leave on always on display. Leave on live activities. Make your screen brighter than you need it. Don't bother downloading offline maps.

Keep a light weight charger on you if you think you can't make it through the day with one charge. When you are low, or if you expect to be without a charger for a long time, turn on low power mode. Low power mode will do a lot of other things anyway, including turning off always on display, background refresh, etc.

That's all you need to do.

 

[contacos]

Care to enlighten the masses on your two aforementioned shortcuts (steps for set up)

Hope this makes sense. Don’t have access to my Mac right now to write it down properly.

 

[anthogag]

Or just leave everything on like a Pro and connect the magsafe battery pack if you need some extra juice.

 

[addamas]

It’s missing limiting to only apps we want data to be already up to date when we open app in
Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh

but turning it completely will not break anything totally

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Back when I picked my new 13 Mini up from an Apple Store, I asked a staff member for advice to extend the longevity of the battery.

His response "charge as little as possible"

 

[klasma]

Or they could reduce the number of cameras or the camera size on the back and give a bigger battery. I would rather have a bigger battery than those huge cameras. I miss the old days where there was only 1 camera on the back. Not everyone is a photographer, some just need a camera that can take decent pictures.

I don’t think you want a 300+ g phone.

 

[t0rqx]

How about not using wireless charging.

 

[klasma]

Low Power Mode should be the first tip, not the last under “Click here to read rest of article”.

 

[vegetassj4]

Tho turning off and back on frequently can damage the circuitry more than you imagine, which can lead to premature failure.

With that being said however, I seriously doubt iPhone today can truly be turned off without removing the battery.

Twas only joking

 

[johnnytravels]

How about not using wireless charging.

Came here to say that.
Extending battery life is also a matter of battery health. And wireless charging is worse for battery health than wired charging.