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8 Tips to Extend Your iPhone's Battery Life
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Tip number 9.
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:
2. Turn Off Proximity AirDrop Sharing
- Open up the Settings app.
- Tap on Sounds & Haptics.
- Tap on Keyboard Feedback.
- Toggle off Haptic.
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:
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.
- Open up the Settings app.
- Go to Face ID & Passcode.
- Enter your passcode to unlock the iPhone.
- Scroll down and toggle off Live Activities.
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:
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.
- Open up the Settings app.
- Tap on Display & Brightness.
- Tap on Always On Display.
- Toggle off Always On Display.
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.
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.
- Open up the Settings app.
- Choose Privacy & Security.
- Tap Location Services.
- Review the list and edit settings by tapping on the name of each app in the list.
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
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Use smoke signals.
10, I say, 10!
Ten Tips - nicely staccato and alliterative. Beloved by headline writers around the English speaking world.
All iPhone 15 have this feature, including the non-pro ones
Tip 9, leave your phone at home.
Tip 10, send a fax instead!
I switched to Android, because IP SE1 always turned off when I wanted to make a picture in the snowy mountains (not to mention navigation). I use Samsung a53, the best phone I had, for my use of course.
Apple's website states in part: "Note: Your iPhone might perform some tasks more slowly when in Low Power Mode."
Sounds like you need to make your expectations realistic or limit your use of low power mode to when you are almost out of battery.
Use Low Power Mode to reduce power usage on iPhone
Low Power Mode reduces the amount of power that your iPhone uses when the battery gets low. It optimizes performance for essential tasks like making and receiving calls, sending and receiving email and messages, and accessing the internet.
support.apple.com
I'm talking about my personal experiences. Even a mid-range Android has better battery than my iPhone 12. My father's A51 lasted way longer than my iPhone with battery pack. I got really disappointed by it. Every time I travel somewhere I have to prepare for it. Ever since I had the iPhone 5s.Huh? iPhones regularly prove to have the best battery life of mainstream phones.
iPhone 15 battery life tested — here's how long all four models last
The iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 15 Plus lead the waywww.tomsguide.com
My friend's Samsung S21 seems to have a better battery life, takes better pictures too and yet the newest Galaxy is $200 cheaper than the iPhone 15 in my country. I don't know anyone in real life that would say that iPhones have better battery lives. Once again, personal experiences.
Aren't Flip phones a failure? The ones I've seen on YouTube I can tell you that we're not there yet.
I compared my iPhone 12 to my father's Samsung Galaxy A51 and my friend's Galaxy S22 seems to last longer too and take better photos.
iPhones are great speed wise though. I even forgot that YouTube has a splash screen.
It makes sense. What were you able to do on the original iPhone? Especially in the beginning. It also used 2G network, which as I have understood doesn't require much battery. Now we have bluetooth etc always on and game on our devices and use 5G etc.
I didn't need a quote.. I realize what low power mode does.... I was more so making a statement..
How about Apple enables the 85% charging feature on older iPhones, like... phones from 4 measily months ago? Oh that's right, Apple doesn't want to preserve older iPhones.
Automation:
I tried with the "sunset" for low power mode - however that also means a "sunrise" automation for it to turn off.
When I tried with the "do not disturb" focus automation it didn't work...??
You can add it with an app called Al Dente for Mac.
That’s the thing, a computer can lack some features because you can add them with apps by yourself. On iPhone that’s not possible. And apple has the audacity to add it to the most recent „pro“ phones but no other? And then talks about environmental conscience… despicable
Definitely not necessary.
Since the iPhone 8 I believe an iPhone can „refuse“ to charge if the port detects liquid.
So, technically, all iPhones since the 8 have hardware and software to stop charging.
That's a good tip- I actually downloaded Al Dente earlier this week 👍🏼
Yes I guess you could make another automation with „sunrise“ turn low power mode off. I have another automation for my (unrelated) „have a nice day“ focus, why turns it off but also does something else, so that’s why I didn’t add it here