You were one of the 200 million and counting who upgraded to iOS 8, but now you are experiencing the dreaded battery drain. We’ve seen reports in our forums and I too have had issues with my iPhone. You have that helpless feeling as you watch your battery life percentage moving at a fast clip to a point where your phone is rendered all but useless. A good number of you rely on your iPhone, counting on it to make through an entire day. New features. We love them when they are introduced, because they offer the promise of making our lives easier or more productive. That’s the goal behind intelligent updating in iOS 7. When you left an app open in previous versions of iOS, it would not have an effect on battery life. It would enter a paused state, waiting for you to return. OS 8 offers improvements here by updating information based on your usage.
So if you check your tweets each morning, it will ping Twitter to pull down the data, all in advance of your entering the app. What if you use ten or twenty apps and they are all pulling data from the Internet. The unfortunate consequence of intelligent updating can be the impact on your iPhones battery. Don’t worry, we can easily fix this with a few changes in settings. You can turn off this feature globally or toggle individual apps. Definition: Background Apps Refresh: Allow apps to refresh their content when on Wi-Fi or cellular, or use Location Services, in the background. Turning off apps may help preserve battery life. This is Apple’s definition and note where we’ve place emphasis. I know, you love her/him. Having a personal assistant at your disposal is great, but these are tough times. If you want that see big improvements, you cannot afford to use features that could have an impact on battery life. Every time that you use Siri, you are using your LTE (or WI-FI) connection to make a data connection.
If you are in a bad coverage area, you’ll incur even a greater drain. Siri. Toggle to off to Disable Siri. Your retina display is beautiful. Bright, sharp, vivid and flat out awesome. It’s also the biggest offender when it comes to stealing from your all important power resources. Wallpapers and Brightness: Manually slide left to lower the brightness to a lower, but acceptable level. Another option is to set to Auto-Brightness. If you toggle that option to ‘On’ (green), your iPhone will naturally adjust the brightness depending upon your location. If you are in a cave, it’ll be relatively dim. It changes based on the available light. There are new wallpaper options in iOS. In addition to still images, you can also select ‘Dynamic’, which will produce slow moving graphic effects on your screen. Wallpaper and Brightness. Confirm that you have selected a wallpaper from ‘Stills’. Billed as one of the cooler features in iOS, the Parallax feature creates motion to provide for a more animated user interface. Some have found that parallax can cause motion sickness and it can also be a contributor to depleting your battery.
Reduce Motion. Toggle to ‘On’. Ping. Buzz. Ping, ping. Notifications are great. They help keep us up to date without having to turn on our phones. Over time, enabling notifications across all of your apps can present a number of problems. First off, it can be incredibly disruptive to your work day, having to continuously look down at your iPhone. They can also be detrimental to our goal of improving battery life. I’m not saying you have to do something crazy like turning off all notifications, but at a minimum, turn off notifications where you absolutely do not need them. Your iPhone has a setting that puts the phone to sleep and back into lock mode. Auto-Lock. You’ll want to check the box for ‘1 minute’, which is the lowest possible setting. The best way to conserve is to manually put your iPhone to sleep using the sleep/wake button. When you setup your iPhone, you likely enabled Location Services.
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