I’m going to tell you a secret.

It’s the number 1 reason that iPhone batteries die.

Are you ready?

It’s because you use your iPhone all the time!

I know, big revelation, right?

But seriously… even when you’re not actively using your phone, it’s still busy doing things for you

The key to making your iPhone stay charged longer is to limit what your iphone is doing when you’re not using it

I’ll show you 4 adjustments you can make so your phone will stop working so hard when you’re not using it.

before we start… check your settings!

Go to Settings

General

Battery Usage

Usage

The apps at the top of the list are the apps that have been using the most power

maybe even when you’re not using the app

Touch the “last 7 days” tab and look at those as well

Now that you know which apps are burning through your battery, what do you do?

You could just stop using the apps that consume the most power.

Did that last tip scare you? I’m sorry.

You don’t want to stop using your favorite apps, do you?

You want to control what your iPhone is doing on it’s own that is wasting your precious battery life.

TIP #1 TAME YOUR HOME AND LOCK SCREENS

Is “Home and Lock Screen” high on your battery usage list?

This might be because app notifications are making your screen light up when you’re not using your phone.

Hey! You have a message!

It could also mean that you’re leaving your iPhone’s screen on too long after you stop using it.

Hello.

Nothing happening here.

Why am I still on?

What are you doing?

don’t worry. Fixing these problems are easy.

ADJUST LOCK SCREEN NOTIFICATIONS

Every time you get a notification, your phone has to wake up and light up the screen

You have a notification!

ADJUST LOCK SCREEN NOTIFICATIONS

If the lock screen is lighting up all day long, your battery life will suffer.

Go to Settings

notifications

let’s fix this

touch an app name

Either turn off all notifications for that app or turn off “show on lock screen.”

Repeat these steps for other apps

AUTO-LOCK SETTINGS

Do you just set your phone down when you are finished using it, without turning off the screen?

AUTO-LOCK SETTINGS

If so, you can adjust the time that it takes for the screen to turn off on it’s own and this can save some battery life.

fix this

Go to Settings

general

auto-lock

select 1 minute

TIP #2. AAAAAHHHH REFRESHING

Go back to Settings

General

Battery Usage

Usage

Do any of the apps in your battery usage list display “background activity” under the app name?

This means that the app continued to do something in the background while you were using a different app.

you could make all background activity stop…

but not all background activity is bad

In the case of podcasts, I want it to download new episodes in the background

Take a look at the percentage of power that your apps are using in the background and ask yourself if it’s a big deal.

If you want to stop this behavior, you can turn off background activity for those apps.

Go to Settings

General

background app refresh

let’s fix it

Switch off any apps that you do not want refreshing in the background

Stop with that dang-diddly refreshing!

TIP #3. HELLO? IS IT ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?

if an app is constantly trying to find your location, that takes battery power.

Where are you?

however, Sometimes you want an app to always find you.

Good news: you can pick and choose which apps find your location.

psst… where are you now?

Go to Settings

privacy

location services

touch the name of an app

decide when you want it to track your location

TIP #4. PUSH IT. PUSH IT GOOD.

When you set up your email account on your phone, most modern email providers will “push” new emails to the Mail app.

This means that your phone is constantly checking to see if you have new mail, and if you do, it grabs that mail and brings it to you immediately.

Instead of “pushing” information to you, which uses a lot of power, you can tell your phone to “fetch” that information at longer intervals.

Instead of constantly checking, it waits for a certain amount of time before it checks for new content.

let’s fix thisGo to Settings

mail, contacts and calendars

fetch new data

If push is on, you can turn it off

If you have multiple email accounts, you can set some to fetch and some to push. Just touch the account name to set it

Scroll all the way down and set the frequency that you’d like your phone to fetch.

Manually means that it will only fetch mail whenever you open the app

I hope this was helpful!

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