How To Improve Mac, IPhone & IPad Battery Life In 26 Tips

Here are some of the best tips to squeeze extra power from an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). Make sure your iOS is kept up-to-date to ensure your device is utilizing Apple’s latest battery life preserving tweaks. Get to know your battery. Battery and wait for your Battery Usage data to load. You’ll be able to see which apps use the most power and switch them off. Display & Brightness and disable Auto-Brightness. You should also reduce the brightness of your device using the slider here (or in Control Center). If you don’t need to use Bluetooth, Cellular, or Wi-Fi, then you should swipe up from the bottom of the display to raise Control Center and then tap the Airplane Mode button to on. If you need to use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi you can always enable them using their settings in Control Center, as even limiting cellular connection will save a little more power.

If you are in a location with poor cellular coverage you’ll save significant power by disabling the cellular radio in your device - this is because it constantly seeks a strong connection, using battery power as it does. You can enable and disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi manually inside Control Center if you need to keep cellular coverage. Wi-Fi uses less power than cellular, Apple claims. You can disable AirDrop manually in Control Center. Just swipe up to get to Control Center, tap the AirDrop item, and set it to ‘Receiving Off’. This saves a good amount of energy as it works by scanning for nearby devices when it is active. That’s also why Apple disables it in Low Power Mode (see below). You’ll also want to switch down the volume on your device and turn off Vibrate on Ring and Vibrate on Silent to further trim power need. General, though this is done automatically for you in Low Power Mode, which may be better if you’re likely to forget to switch this one again.

Apple’s parallax and other visual effects can be disabled to save a little energy. Accessibility, and switch on Reduce Motion. Spotlight Search where you can define which sites and apps it uses to search. Do you have apps set to share Notifications that you don’t read or don’t use, Notifications to find an extensive list of all the apps capable of sharing notifications through your device. Tap on the ones you aren’t interested in and selecting None to prevent receiving items from that app, or switch off Allow Notifications from that app to disable it completely. When you want to maximize battery life you will want to disable Push email, as this requires plenty of power. Contacts &Calendars choose Fetch New Data and turn Push to Off. You can now choose to check for emails at certain intervals, or switch it to Manually for best control (and best power saving). Once again, this is what Low Power Mode does for you.

Siri and switch it off. You’ll miss it, but doing so may help conserve a little more power. Location Services toggle these to off. You will no longer be able to use all your apps and services, but you will also stop your device trying to figure out where it is. Alternatively disable location services for those apps you won’t need to use. Every Safari website has its own scripts, ads and ‘other stuff’. These don’t take up too much power, but the combined demand mounts up. If you want to extend battery life it makes sense to close any browser window you don’t need to use. You don’t need to quit Safari (the apps themselves make little difference when conserving power), but it is worth quitting some websites. I continue to believe you will save significant power by deleting the Facebook and Messenger apps from your device. You can always check the site and your messages using Safari.