Simple tips to make your iPhone battery last longer

Apple claims a pretty impressive battery life for the iPhone – up to 8 hours of use. But my experience is that the iPhone’s battery is not that good. We also receive a lot of battery related issues from users. Here are a few simple tweaks you can apply to improve your iPhone’s battery life considerably.

Turn off auto-brightness

Go to Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper and toggle off Auto-Brightness and reduce your screen to a comfortable settings (e.g. 20-25 percent).

Turn off (unnecessary) location services

Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. and turn off location services; when you are not using them (e.g., Maps etc).

Turn off push email

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Fetch New Data set Push to Off.

Fetch data less frequently

Tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Fetch: Instead of having your iPhone push you new emails every 15 minutes, set it to “manually” or “hourly.”

Turn off push notifications

To disable push notifications, tap Settings > Notifications and disable notifications for apps.

Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Wi-F- and bluetooth may use a significant amount of battery life. When you are not using them, turn them off. Tap Settings > Wi-Fi > set to Off. And tap Settings > Bluetooth > set this to Off.

Auto-Lock Sooner

You can decide how quickly your iPhone should lock when it hasn’t been in use. Tap Settings > General > Auto-Lock > set this to 1 Minute or 2 Minutes.

Turn of vibrations

Vibrations can be useful but you may want to disable vibrations to save battery. Tap Settings > Sounds and and change your vibrations settings.

Fully close unused apps

iPhone apps don’t completely close when press the home button. Close apps down when you do not use them/ To do that, double-clicking the Home button, then touch and hold any open app, when they jiggle, tap the red minus sign to close them.

Turn LTE off

If you don’t use LTE much, turn it off by going to Settings > General > Cellular > Enable LTE to OFF.

Turn Off Unnecessary Cellular Data Usage

Turn off cellular data usage for items and services. Go to Settings > General > Cellular > Toggle everything under “Use Cellular Data for:” to OFF.

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