Battery draining could be the most drastic issue that one can face while handling gadgets. The battery is responsible for storing and releasing energy in any gadget. There isn’t a gadget that runs without a battery. The battery gets drained very easily due to many issues and this could bring up the switching off the gadgets.
iPhone battery also gets drained very easily as of its unique processing. But charging it every single day couldn’t be that easy in some busy schedules so here are the 8 iPhone battery-saving tips: You should know to conserve the battery and have longer use of the iPhone.
Best Ways To Conserve Your Battery
iPhone 12 Pro offers a battery life of more than 15 hours but what happens if you have an older version of the iPhone? Though the usage is more, you can conserve your battery! Wondered how! Then the below tips can make your excitement worthwhile.
1. Turn on Low Power Mode
To save battery, we often turn on low power mode, or sometimes power mode will activate itself when our charge is less than 20%. Go through the below procedure to activate power mode.
- Head towards the settings and tap on the battery option.
- When you select the battery option, a home page will open showing; Normal mode and Low power mode. Toggle on the Low power mode to activate.
- Once it is activated, you will find a yellow color on the battery icon.
2. Adjusting the Brightness
On a hot summer day, for binge-watching or making a call, the visibility of the phone screen is necessary. To achieve this, we generally increase our screen brightness for a better quality but don’t care about the draining battery. To make sure not to drain your battery at the same time, adhere to the below guidance.
Auto-brightness: To turn it on, you need to choose the settings option, and a homepage will open stating different options, tap on the accessibility and then select display and text size. After selecting, you will come across an option named Auto-brightness, hit on it. With this, your phone will adjust the brightness according to your current display settings. If there is sufficient light to view, your screen will automatically darken itself to conserve battery.
You can also adjust the brightness manually in Settings > Display and Brightness by dragging the slider bar. Additionally, the Control Center has a slider that can be moved up or down by lightly pressing on the brightness icon.
3. Switch off Location System Services
Location system services are used to trace your GPS with the help of Google Maps which leads to extreme battery consumption, this can be sorted by switching off the location permissions and then enabling it only when required. You can deactivate it through Settingsb> Privacy > Location Services.
4. Shut off Notifications
Every time you get a notification regarding messages, breaking news alerts or Instagram follow your screen will flash which might lead to a loss of battery. You can conserve the battery by turning off the notifications.
- Open the settings by tapping on the icon and then head to the notification option and select the manage notification. With this, you will get a list of apps where you can manage the settings by switching off their notifications.
- Or else you can directly select the notification you wish to deactivate. On such notification, swipe left and select the manage option.
5. Turn off Siri Notifications
You all are familiar with the name Siri, a digital assistant right! It will generally offer suggestions regarding your actions but to offer this, your assistant needs to operate in the background, and guess what that does to the battery? Yes! your guess is right it leads to the killing of the battery. To conserve your battery, choose Siri and search under the settings. Now, you can activate or deactivate Siri notifications on the lock screen and home screen.
6. Disable Automatic App Updates
You can update the apps and other operating systems to run faster and smoother. By default, your iPhone supports automatic app updates, which means when the new update is available it will download it without your concern. However, to disable this:
- Navigate to the Settings icon and open it. To select App update choose the App Store and then disable it to avoid automatic app updates. In this way, you can preserve your battery.
7. Switching off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and AirDrop
In most of our homes, we use Wi-Fi, but what happens when your Wi-Fi is on though you are not using it? Your phone will search for nearby Wi-Fi connections which change according to your location. Similarly, your phone will search for nearby Bluetooth, and AirDrop connections when they are activated.
So that you will lose your charge, to stop this you can use the Control Center. You can simply disable them by tapping on the WiFi option or else you can follow Settings > Wi-Fi, Settings > Bluetooth, and Settings > General > AirDrop > Receiving Off, to turn them off.
8. Avoid Live Wallpapers
Most of us are interested in free moving or live wallpapers to make our wallpaper attractive but we don’t even have a knowledge about how they consume your battery. Anyway, to change your wallpaper, follow the below instructions
- Open the settings and scroll down till you find wallpaper, tap on it. In this, choose a New wallpaper according to your interest.
- You can also turn off the motion effects by heading to Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce Motion and then activate it.
Final Note
You can follow the above given tips to save your battery. But disabling or switching off sometimes leads to loss of important messages, notifications. So be aware while doing it!
Though you are not able to conserve your battery by the above tips the best way is to buy a power bank such that you no need to turn off notifications, Wi-Fi or brightness and you can also use your iPhone without the worry of battery loss.