iOS 16: 15 Tips to Make Your iPhone Battery Last Longer

[philcourage]

All the stuff they introduced just turn off basically?

Just turn the phone off completely, it'll be easier.

 

[compwiz1202]

I would have honestly used low power all the time if I could separately change the screen timeout. What else does it even do. Never noticed any slowness.

 

[compwiz1202]

Just turn the phone off completely, it'll be easier.

Turn off your iPhone and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online

 

[Artemis70]

I’ve just noticed, being inside a building where there’s Wi-Fi, if I look it settings it shows I’m connected to Wi-Fi, but in the status bar, the Wi-Fi logo isn’t visible, only 4G or 5G

As far as I know, that means that Wi-Fi reception is spotty and you are connected to 4G or 5G because the Wi-Fi coverage isn't good enough, or because the Wi-Fi throughput isn't good enough.

 

[_Spinn_]

Turn off your iPhone and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online

Love me a Weird Al reference.

 

[quatermass]

Disable every setting and only allow the phone to make or take calls (on 2G, don’t allow 3G/4G/5G), with screen brightness permanently set to be lowest possible.

Basically, make it so it’s a mobile from 1998.

I'm still using a phone from 2011 and it works fine. Sun still comes up every morning.

 

[drumcat]

You forgot "Avoid 16.1.0".

 

[macsound1]

I suspect this is something else entirely. Your Wifi antennas are On. You'll have to be careful because iOS doesn't shut down Wifi antennas from Control Center when you press the Wifi button.

It leaves Wifi antennas On for different purposes, like AirDrop, Handoff, Apple Watch unlock and other functions that creates a closed connection using Wifi. But, it disconnects you from other access points for X number of hours, I cannot remember now how many. If you want Wifi antennas Off, you will need to navigate into the Settings app, and toggle the Wifi switch manually to Off.

So this is why I suspect that you have toggled Off the access points for some hours, and you only see Cellular connections until they are reconnecting again.

Just got another Wifi Cellular oddity when upgrading my GF's 12 Pro to 16.1.
When actively on Wifi, there was a popup asking me if I'd like to do the update over cellular.
My 2 choice were Use Cellular or Don't Use Cellular. The WiFi bars were active during this popup...

 

[phenste]

not like Uber’s backend has ever been good but it’s murdering me that they’re the predominant stock photo for Live Activities and it’s not even a thing yet

oh, footnote: probably not a choice for everyone, but I turned off Exposure Notifications and my 14 Pro Max ziplined back to the same battery life as my 12 Pro Max

 

[macsound1]

As far as I know, that means that Wi-Fi reception is spotty and you are connected to 4G or 5G because the Wi-Fi coverage isn't good enough, or because the Wi-Fi throughput isn't good enough.

Not the case for me but 🤷‍♂️
There are many times when I'm poorly connected to wifi - like at a restaurant or grocery store and the iPhone won't switch back to cellular, but when I'm home 2 ft from the access point, it asks me if I'd prefer to download a 1GB update over cellular... feels weird to me.

 

[CarlJ]

Switching from push to fetch, for mail, is a terrible idea. The former means they contact you whenever there's new email (and only when there's new email). The latter means your phone has to repeatedly contact the email server, every 5 (or 10 or 30 or whatever) minutes to ask if there's any new email, whether or not there's any new mail. It's both slower for you and potentially takes more energy, contacting where there's nothing to get.

 

[wa2be]

Switching from push to fetch, for mail, is a terrible idea. The former means they contact you whenever there's new email (and only when there's new email). The latter means your phone has to repeatedly contact the email server, every 5 (or 10 or 30 or whatever) minutes to ask if there's any new email, whether or not there's any new mail. It's both slower for you and potentially takes more energy, contacting where there's nothing to get.

With Gmail, and using the native iOS Mail app, the only options it gives you is "Fetch" and "Manual". For mail coming from Exhange accounts you have the option to use push. Not sure why there's a difference.

 

[CarlJ]

With Gmail, and using the native iOS Mail app, the only options it gives you is "Fetch" and "Manual". For mail coming from Exhange accounts you have the option to use push. Not sure why there's a difference.

It’s a matter of whether the email provider has implemented the necessary IMAP protocol extensions in their server, usually.

 

[braddick]

I "Reset-all-settings" and afterward use Shortcuts to leave Low-power mode on all the time (there's a shortcut for that).
I double my battery life without giving up much.

 

[jauhari]

Turn Off iPhone and Get a life

 

[Artemis70]

Not the case for me but 🤷‍♂️
There are many times when I'm poorly connected to wifi - like at a restaurant or grocery store and the iPhone won't switch back to cellular, but when I'm home 2 ft from the access point, it asks me if I'd prefer to download a 1GB update over cellular... feels weird to me.

While upgrading to iOS 16 and then 16.1, I indeed got a question about using cellular for the download. As far as I can tell, this didn't ask if the download should use cellular or not, but it asked if it was allowed to use cellular. I allowed cellular, and the downloads used Wi-Fi anyway. My guess is that the download would have continued if I went out during the download process, while the download would have been interrupted in the past. The message and question weren't really clear though.