To Increase Battery Life: Turn Off The Cellular Connections

The cellular connections of your device directly affect the battery life of your device. Using 3G and 4G connections may make our life easier but they drain the battery at a faster pace when the signal is poor. 

To turn off the mobile connections, go to Settings>> Mobile data, and turn off the mobile data services. You should also disable the mobile data when you want to restrict all the usage to Wi-Fi, if you are connected to a wireless network. 

Low Data Mode is another option to save the battery of your device which does not require you to turn off the mobile data. To activate, go to Settings>>Mobile Data>>Options>>Low data mode. This will reduce the data usage of your device and hence increase the battery life. 

When you are in a poor signal zone, your device makes more effort to connect to the services, hence drains battery faster. To save battery drainage in such times, you should switch to Airplane mode. This can be done directly from the Control Center. 

Airplane Mode is useful during travel as not only it allows you to prolong your battery life but also saves roaming charges, without having to switch off your phone. To switch on the airplane mode, simply swipe up from the bottom of your screen and tap the airplane mode to activate. Tap again to deactivate.

Extend Your Battery Life By Saving Energy With Low Power Mode

Use this smart iOS feature to prolong your battery life. Pause the processes that drain out your battery to make your battery last longer. 

Low Power Mode works by disabling background applications, auto refresh, auto downloads and email fetching. This mode will also limit some of the iOS visual effects temporarily.

Unlike the airplane mode, this smart feature will not limit your normal device usage to a great extent. You will still be able to use cellular connections, bluetooth and wi-fi. 

To make this easier for you, you will get a default iOS notification to suggest switching on the low power mode when your battery level drops below 20%. You can just tap on continue to proceed or cancel to continue regular mode. You will get another notification to switch to low power mode when the battery level drops to 10%. If you choose to switch to low power mode then it will automatically get disabled when you plug in your device for charging and the battery level reaches 80%. 

To enable the low power mode manually, you can just go to Device settings>>Battery section. 

For faster access, you can use the control center button. Go to Settings>>Control Center>> Customize. Find Low Power Mode here and press “+”. 

To identify if Low Power Mode is active, simply check the color of the battery icon on your device screen. Yellow color icon indicates that the low power mode has been switched on.

Prevent Overheating To Maximize Your Battery Life

The recommended temperature for your iPhone’s health is from 0 degrees to 35 degrees celsius. Therefore, it is suggested not to keep your phone in direct sunlight or in extreme cold conditions. 

A phone case with proper ventilation is recommended to keep the phone’s heat level in check. Your battery life also suffers when your phone gets heated up because it works harder to bring down the temperature of your phone. 

It is also unsafe to use the phone when it is overheated, hence your device will send you a warning message to discontinue usage to allow the phone to cool down. 

Make sure that your device is not heated or even warm while in use to maintain your safety and your battery’s life.

Limit The Apps From Accessing Your Location To Save More Power

Many applications require access to your location for accurate functioning. You should know that not all of them need your location at all times. One way to know if any app is using your location is to look for an arrow sign beside the battery icon. 

To find out which applications are currently using your location and to restrict usage by them if you do not need it at the moment, you need to go to Settings>>Privacy>>Location Services. Here you can either completely turn off the location services by just using the toggle switch or you can also do it for every app individually. 

For every application, you have the option to choose “Never”, which will completely restrict the app’s access to your location or you can choose “While Using”. The latter option will restrict the application’s access to your location only to the time when you are using that application.

Extend Your Battery Life By Turning Off Unimportant Lock Screen Alerts

Notifications or the alerts that you receive on your iPhone actually end up draining the battery. Even though some notifications are very important, there are many that do not really help much but end up using the device power. One way to prevent that can be by turning off notifications. 

To turn off the notifications on your iPhone, go to Settings>>Notifications. Here you will find a list of apps that send you notifications. Simply Tap on every app to check the notification type. You can either completely turn off the notifications from an app by using the toggle switch or you can customize the way you want the notifications or the features you want the notifications for. 

When you uncheck the Lock Screen option, the notifications will stop showing up on your Lock Screen. You will still continue to receive the results when the device is in use. You will also be able to view your notifications in the notification center, but your Lock Screen won’t be cluttered anymore. 

To change the other application permissions, go to Settings>> Notifications and one by one change the notification settings for every app. You cannot turn off notifications all at once, the process needs to be followed individually for every application.

Turn Off Automatic App Refresh

Almost all the applications are programmed to refresh the content in the background or when the phone is idle, just to stay updated. This background refresh of applications is one of the major causes of battery drain. To disable background app refresh, go to Settings>>General>>Background App refresh. From here you can disable updates for all apps at once or individually for every app. 

Note: Leave background refresh for apps that may need your regular location update so that your current location at all times can be accessed. 

Extend Your Battery Life By Using Your Screen With Low Brightness

Everytime your iPhone is in use, it uses a lot of battery to keep the screen lit. The higher the brightness, the higher would be the battery drainage. Turning down the brightness of the screen helps in extending the battery life. 

The brightness of the screen can be adjusted directly from the control center. Simply swipe down the brightness slider to dim the screen light. 

Another way to enhance the battery life is to reduce the auto-lock time. This will ensure that your screen is turned off within a few seconds of non activity. To do this, go to Settings>>Display and Brightness>>Auto-Lock. From here you can adjust when your screen is turned off when not in use. 

Auto Brightness

Your iPhone is designed smartly to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen according to your ambient light. By default, this setting is activated to ensure ease of use and battery saving. To disable auto brightness adjustment, go to Settings>>Accessibility>>Display and Text size.  From here, you can directly disable auto brightness.

Switch-off Background Mobile Services

To make sure that your device is constantly updated, you need to use Background Refresh but it drains the battery at a faster pace. 

There are two ways to manage the background updates; one is to completely restrict auto updates by disabling it on both cellular data and Wi-Fi. Another method, will not only save your battery life but also your data from draining. Here you just have to switch the background refresh to just using Wi-Fi. 

To disable the regular updates on background services through mobile data, go to Settings>>General>>Background App refresh. Now, Tap the Background App Refresh button on the top again to select your preferred option. 

Control How Long Your Battery Lasts

Simply go to Settings>>Battery to find which apps are using up the maximum power. The app listed on the top is the one that consumes the maximum battery charge. 

On the app, just tap on show activity, to discover how much time you are spending on each application. Press back to go back to the combined view. 

By default, the system will show you the information for the past 24 hours only, but you can also see the battery drained percentage of every app for the last 10 days. This will help you identify the most battery draining applications, which can be avoided when power level is low to make sure that the battery lasts longer.

Check Battery Health to find the maximum capacity and performance of your device battery. To ensure that your battery lasts longer, you should always use Optimized Battery Charging, which has been set to default.