How To Improve Your IPhone's Battery Life

The iPhone is quickly becoming the most popular smartphone. The biggest issue users have been complaining about is the battery life of this and several other smartphones. Little do they know that their settings and behavior can make all the difference. This is one of the biggest saves you can make that don't impact your experience in any way. We all know the situation. Your watching a movie at your friends house; and you hear two beeps indicating that you just received a message on your iphone. You take it out of your pocket and answer the message. Now here is the important part. Most people just put it back in their pocket after they're done. By default the screen won't turn off until a minute after your last contact. What you should do is always hit the button on top of the iPhone when you're done. This way the screen wont be active when it's not necessary. Mind you the screen is the biggest energy sucker!

Apple advises this heavily in their battery optimizing articles with reason. The GPS is great but you won't need it every time. In fact the only time you use it is when you're navigating, using curtain 3rd party apps (very few use it) and when taking photos. The latter one few people know but the iPhone 3G(s) actually geo-tags your photos so you can see where you took them in iPhoto on the mac. When you're not using these features please turn GPS off in the settings of your device. It takes just a handful of seconds to turn it on/off so don't be sloppy. Lower is better for battery life. I advise to use the 'auto' setting. The sensor on top of your screen will determine what the best brightness is in every situation. Putting the brightness on full strength for a longer period of time will suck your battery dry before night falls! G is the internet connection your iPhone has (in curtain areas) outside your house. Turn it off if you don't plan to use the internet actively on your trip. The switch will tell your iPhone to only use Edge or Wi-Fi internet, both are more energy efficient. By default your iPhone will only check your e-mails when you hit the mail app. This is best for your battery life. If you prefer the better battery life above the comfort of being notified of new e-mails than make sure fetch and push email are turned off. Make sure your iPhone is running the latest firmware update. As of writing that's 3.1.2. And delete all apps you aren't using. That will make a (minimal) impact on your battery life as well. And there you have it. A few things you can do to improve the battery life of your iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and even your iPod Touch. I hope you find this article helpful.

Check it out to regain some battery life and also enhance your privacy. By default, your installed apps will automatically get updated if there is a new update available. That way, you can always keep your apps up-to-date. However, it also can be a drain on your battery since your device will send requests to App Store servers regularly to check for updates in the background. If you don’t find this feature necessary, you can simply turn it off and update your apps manually. It can make the battery last a bit longer. Tunes & App Store then switch off Updates in the Automatic Downloads section. I have a habit that is I always press the Power/Sleep button after using my device. Because the longer the display stays on, the more power it consumes. But not everyone loves to do that, right, Auto-Lock. and select the 30s option. If you are using the stock Mail app on iOS, then you should notice the Push feature. If it is turned on, your device will constantly poll the server to check if there is new data available to pull down.

So when there is an email sent to you arriving on the server, you will get the notification about it instantly. But if you don’t need to know every time an email comes in, it’s wiser to turn it off and choose to fetch data periodically. You can choose from Every 15 Minutes, Every 30 Minutes, Hourly or Manually. Not only does this help you save more power but also you can stop your device from showing annoying notifications. A great example of “Killing two birds with one stone”. Raise to Wake is a simple and transformative new feature in iOS 10. It allows you to turn on the lock screen by just picking up the device. But many users claim that it doesn’t work perfectly and sometimes it tends to wake the display even at times when we don’t want it to. So whenever you want your battery life to last longer, just turn on this feature.