IPhone And IPad Apps For The Blind And Visually Impaired

So it is possible that features such as The problem with battery Life issues is that it is very subjective as it is based on your usage pattern, so it is difficult to pinpoint what exactly is causing a problem. Note: I’ve noticed that people are quite cynical about such articles as most of them tell you to disable features. The first step in fixing the battery problems is to understand battery usage. OS gives you a breakdown of battery usage by apps. It even gives you the amount of time the app was used and the amount of time it was running in the background. You can use that information to identify the battery hogs. Push email can be a primary cause of battery drain on some devices. Fetch New Data. You need to check if the email account has been set as Push, Fetch or Manual. Push ensures that you get an instant notification when you get a new email, whereas Fetch will look for new data 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, hourly or when you launch the Mail app (manually).

You may want to disable Push email temporarily for your email accounts to see if it improves battery life. Alternatively, if you use multiple email accounts then you may want to disable Push for email accounts where you don’t need to get an instant notification for new email, and switch to Fetch. The higher the fetch interval, the better it is for battery life, so you can set it appropriately based on the importance of the email account. OS’ smart multitasking feature lets apps fetch content in the background. Although Apple has made a lot of optimizations to ensure that battery consumption is minimal, it’s possible that poorly developed app can drain battery life due to this feature. Background App Refresh is a great feature, but you don’t need it for every app. I would strongly recommend turning it off for the Facebook app as it is known to drain battery life. Please note that the tips under section are to highlight areas where you could disable things that are not applicable to you so you can maximize battery life.

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. Swipe right from the edge of the Home screen or Lock screen to open Today View. You can add widgets to the Today View to get timely information from your favorite apps, however, they can drain battery life since they fetch data in the background to show up-to-date information. 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. Swipe down from the top edge of the screen to access Notification Center. Then swipe to the left to access the Widget tab, scroll down and tap on Edit button. Tap on the red -button to remove the widget from the Notification Center. 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. Automatic Downloads section and turn off the “Updates” switch. While you’re there, you can also tell iOS to not use cellular data for automatic downloads and iTunes Match streaming. Spotlight searches a lot of types of content like Applications, Contacts, Music, Podcasts, Mails, Events etc., when you might use it only for contacts, applications, and music. Scroll down to the Include section to see the list of apps and tap on any of them to turn notifications off. 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.