Check Your IPhone’s Battery Life From Your Apple Watch

You can easily check the battery life of your Apple Watch on the iPhone as this is a stock iOS feature. However, it’s not the same if you’d want to view your iPhone’s battery level on your wrist. Not to say it is impossible, but it’s not a built-in feature of the iWatch. The good news is, there are several apps available on iTunes with this capability, although for the purpose of this guide we’ll be using Power. UI make it worth the price, as you’ll be able to quickly check your iPhone’s battery life on your wrist, whenever you find it too inconvenient to pull the phone out of your pocket, handbag…..etc. After you install Power, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Select Power in the list of apps. Now toggle on both ‘Show in Glances‘ and ‘Show App on Apple Watch‘ options. Then you can optionally return to the Glances screen and reposition Power in the list. From then on, you’ll be able to access Power in your Apple Watch glances, while the app can be launched from the home screen of your iWatch. Also, you’ll need to open Power on the iPhone at least one time as this way you can enable notifications in the app. This option can be very useful as Power will alert you when your iPhone is fully charged.

But you may not find this option in all apps as developers need to explicitly add support for it. If you’ve accidentally disabled location services for an app that needs to use it, don’t worry, it will prompt you to give access to Location Services when you launch it. OS includes a smarter multitasking that lets apps fetch content in the background. Although Apple has a lot of optimizations in place to ensure that battery consumption is minimal, it’s possible that a poorly developed app could be using this feature, which could end up draining battery life. Facebook or other apps that don’t absolutely need to be updated all the time. Background App Refresh is a great feature, but you don’t need it for every app. One of the biggest culprits for battery drain according to a former Apple Genius technician is the Facebook app, so he recommends disabling Location Services and Background App Refresh for Facebook. In some cases, people have actually seen the battery percentage increase. Facebook continues to optimize and improve their app so this may not be required in the future.

Push email can be a primary cause of battery drain on some devices. Fetch New Data. You need to check if the email account has been set as Push, Fetch or Manual. Push ensures that you get an instant notification when you get a new email, where as Fetch will look for new data 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, hourly or when you launch the Mail app (manually). You may want to disable Push email temporarily for your email accounts to see if it increases battery life. Alternatively, if you use multiple email accounts then you may want to disable Push for email accounts where you don’t need to get an instant notification for new email, and switch to Fetch. The higher the fetch interval, the better it is for battery life, so you can set it appropriately based on the importance of the email account. If you live or work in an area that has poor or no LTE coverage or your carrier doesn’t offer LTE yet, then you should consider switching to 3G to prevent the LTE radio from draining battery life unnecessarily. Enable LTE/Enable 4G and tap on the Off option.

Battery and tapping on the toggle. Low Power Mode temporarily reduces power consumption by turning off or reducing mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, and some visual effects. Apple states that Low Power Mode mode can improve battery life by an additional 3 hours. OS includes a facedown detection feature, which makes use of the ambient light sensor to ensure the display doesn’t light up when you receive a Notification when you place the iPhone facedown. The feature along with other refinements helps in increasing battery life by an additional hour as it turns off the display when not in use. So when you place your iPhone on the table, you should place it facedown to conserve battery life. Please note the Facedown Detection feature is available only on iPhone 5s or later devices. Please note that the tips under section are to highlight areas where you could disable things that are not applicable to you so you can extend battery life.