Battery life issue has existed for long on iPhone or iPad. There is more than one reason to blame if your device battery goes berserk. An ill-fated software update, an annoying bug, power-sucking features or killer apps could turn out to be the main villain. If you are finding it hard to prevent the fast battery consumption on the latest iOS ecosystem, follow these best tips and tricks to troubleshoot the problem as well as improve the battery life of your iPhone. Disabling Location Services can prove to be a shot in the arm for your iPhone's battery life. Open Settings app → Privacy. Tap on Location Services. Next, you need to toggle off the switch next to Location Services. Tap on Turn Off at the bottom to confirm. Apps continue to get refreshed in the background. Turn off Background App Refresh cannot just save a lot of data but also improve battery life of your device. Launch Settings app → General. Tap on Background App Refresh. Now toggle off the switch next to Background App Refresh. Do you want apps to get downloaded or updated automatically on your iOS device, It’s advisable to toggle off this feature.
Open Settings app → iTunes & App Store. Under Automatic Downloads, you need to turn off the switch next to Music, Apps, Books & Audiobooks and Updates. When you enable Low Power Mode, it will temporarily reduce power consumption by disabling features like automatic downloads. Open Settings app → Battery. Toggle on the switch next to Low Power Mode. You should toggle off Wi-Fi/Cellular Data/Bluetooth when you are not using it. Do you want notifications from a number of apps, It's better to choose only a few apps. Open Settings app → Notifications. Tap on the app which you don't want to receive notification from. Turn off the switch next to Allow Notifications. Phone speaker eats into battery very fast. Hence, using headphone while listening to music can help your device battery last a bit longer. Cloud Keychain allows you to keep the passwords and credit card information you save up to date on your other synced devices. Open Settings app → iCloud. Turn off the switch next to iCloud Keychain → Enter your Apple ID passwords in the popup and then tap on Sign In. You should keep a track of the usage of respective apps. Settings → Battery. If you find any app consuming a lot of battery, delete it and reinstall it. It's recommended to keep the auto-brightness at the minimum level. Simply swipe up from the bottom to bring Control Center and then set it perfectly. Make sure to set auto-lock to minimum time. Open Settings app → Display & Brightness. Tap on Auto-Lock and choose the minimum time. Resetting your iPhone to factory defaults can help you troubleshoot the battery draining issue. Open Settings app → General. Scroll down and tap on Reset. Tap on Reset All Settings and confirm. Assuming these tried and tested tricks help you resolve the battery life issue on your iPhone. In case, they fail to do the job for you, update your device to the latest software version. Do let us know your feedback in the comment, on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.
We are not recommending or advising you to disable features just for battery life, as then there would be no point in using smartphones like the iPhone. The Today View in the Lock Screen and Notification Center (when you swipe left) includes widgets for Stock and Weather and any other third-party Notification Center widget you may have added. You should review the list and remove the widgets that you don’t want to ensure they don’t consume battery life unnecessarily as some of them could be using Location services. Check out our post to find out how to disable the unwanted widgets in the Today view. Dynamic wallpapers bring subtle animations to the home and the lock screen. Unfortunately, the animations take up CPU cycles and consume more battery. Choose Wallpaper where you can go to either Stills or your set an image from your photo library as your wallpaper. Apple added a number of animations and physics-based effects to the interface in iOS 7 to help users understand the layered elements in the UI.
Some of these effects even access gyroscopic data, which contributes further to battery drain. Reduce Motion and turn on the switch. However, please note that enabling Reduce Motion will disable the effects in the Messages app. Set Auto-Lock interval so that your iPhone will turn off more quickly after a period of inactivity. To set the auto-Lock interval, launch the Settings app, tap on General and then Auto-Lock and set the auto-lock interval to either 30 seconds, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 minutes. You’re probably aware that using Wi-Fi drains iPhone’s battery, but perhaps you didn’t know that one of the most intensive processes that iPhone’s Wi-Fi chip has to do is search for available network. So if this happens in regular intervals, it’s going to have a noticeable impact on your battery. To disable this feature, launch the Settings app, tap on Wi-Fi, and tap on the On/Off toggle for Ask to Join Networks to disable it.
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