How To Save Your IPhone 7's Battery Life

With the dawn of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Apple gods have bestowed two extra hours of iPhone battery life on us. And it’s a game-changer, along with all it’s other incredible features. Let’s be honest: a phone, no matter how fabulous it looks, is only great when we know we can rely on it, anytime, anywhere. Since most of us take our trusty iPhones with us wherever we go, battery power plays a huge role in a phone’s performance and popularity. The screens on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are bigger and brighter than ever, so you can prolong your battery life by adjusting screen brightness. Just swipe up from the bottom of the display to open the Control Centre, then drag the brightness slider as far left as possible. Yes, we’re telling to you go get iOS 10 (and not just for all of its cool features). It’s good for your iPhone 7 battery life, too. Software update to get manual updates on your devices, or plug your phone into a power source for a wireless update.

With the stereo output of the iPhone 7, the potential for louder volume means you should also be conscious of sound impacting your battery life - lowering the volume is another battery-saver. Hands up if you thought that you should let your battery life drain to zero before recharging, A common myth, and unfortunately one that will shorten your phone’s lifespan. When it comes to battery best practice, if you let lithium-ion batteries die, then they degrade over time. According to Battery University, you should be charging your phone when it’s around 50% to optimise performance and keep the phone going for longer. Disabling location services is another good way to extend battery life. Privacy, then tap on Location Services and toggle the switch off. With the hyper-sensitive home button on the iPhone 7, it’s super easy to unlock the screen when you need it. Which means that the screen should be turned off when you’re not using it to make sure it’s not consuming power unnecessarily. Auto-Lock. You should also press the Sleep/Wake button at the top of your iPhone as soon as you’ve finished using it. Keep the computer plugged in, with the power on, when charging your iPhone 7 with the USB cable. Your battery will drain if the computer’s off or in sleep mode. And be careful when trying to charge your iPhone 7 in its case - excess heat may affect the battery. OS 10 is designed to be the most battery-efficient iOS ever. And it gives you more ways to improve iPhone battery life, because you can see exactly which apps are the biggest battery drainers. The arrival of iOS 10 also gives you a new battery-saving mode that Apple says should help your iPhone battery life last much longer. We can’t wait to give it a try.

Frustratingly, there is no easy answer to this question. In iOS 8 Apple began to allow users to see which apps are the biggest battery drainers and you can of course see the percentage of battery power remaining. You can also see how long your phone has been running without a charge, and how much of that time you have been using the iPhone, but it can't tell you how many hours you have left. This is probably because the amount of battery life remaining is entirely dependent on what you are planning to do with your iPhone. If Apple told you to expect two hours and then you ran a movie on full blast you would probably run out of battery before the movie ended. However, there are third-party apps that can give you some guidance about how much battery life is remaining. One such app is BatteryDoctor (previously BatterySaver) from KS Mobile (buy it from the App Store here). This tool offers a broad range of system tweaks, with a particular focus on saving battery life. The app's main screen shows an estimate for how much battery life is left, based on what's running in the background, and your current system settings. If you perform some of the tweaks suggested by the app, you'll see this number creep up.

Now that Apple’s admitted to slowing down iPhones with degraded batteries, you’re probably interested in figuring out whether your battery is losing its ability to hold a charge (and whether you should replace it). There are a few ways to do this, either with an app or by waiting a few weeks, when Apple says it will provide customers with more information about their batteries. Still curious in the interim, Here’s what to do. You can download a few diagnostics apps available in the App Store to learn more about the quality of your iPhone’s battery. If you want a detailed look at how your battery operates under stress, you can download an app like Geekbench 4, a diagnostics tool that will offer detailed information about your iPhone’s speed, battery life, and computing power. You can also use it to check whether or not your iPhone is affected by Apple’s speed throttling. For a quick glimpse at your battery to make sure it isn’t completely shot, use an app like Victor Robinson’s Battery Life. It’s a straightforward app that tells you how much capacity your battery life has left. If you’ve got an older iPhone, you’ll see a dip in your battery’s overall capacity when you visit the Raw Data page. Since Apple’s confessed to slowing down old iPhones with degraded batteries, the company has gone on to offer a discount on replacement batteries, after classifying them as consumable components. It will also update iOS 11 itself to include more detailed information about your battery. January 2018. The company will release more details about the process “soon,” according to a press release.

Cellphone batteries: Few things in the tech world are as derided as these small, but oh-so-necessary, components. The problem with phone batteries, They're always dying (and usually at the precise moment you wish they wouldn't). Still, there are a few ways to delay the inevitable death of your phone's battery and one is remarkably simple — just get an additional battery and add it to the one you already have. But there's a problem with Apple's newest product: It's kind of ugly. Gordon Gottsegen at Wired said the case makes it look like the iPhone has a "strange-looking growth on its backside." Lauren Goode at The Verge said it looks like an iPod that swallowed an iPhone. But to be fair, Apple's isn't the only battery case that's bulky. As Chris Davies at Slash Gear pointed out, the popular Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 6 and 6s is just as ungainly as Apple's smart battery case.