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Don’t you hate when your phone’s battery is half gone and its only the middle of the day?

 

Apple’s website shares these tips to maximize battery life, and some of these I had no idea about! You know how you kill your apps? Turns out that that really doesn’t do a lot to preserve your battery but these things will…

 

Dim the screen or turn on Auto-Brightness to extend battery life.

  • To dim, swipe up from the bottom of any screen to open Control Center and drag the Brightness slider to the left.
  • Auto-Brightness adjusts your screen to lighting conditions automatically. To activate it, go to Settings > Display & Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.

 

When you use your device to access data, a Wi-Fi connection uses less power than a cellular network — so keep Wi-Fi on at all times. There are two ways to turn on Wi-Fi:

  • Swipe up to open Control Center, tap the Wi-Fi icon and log in to a Wi-Fi network.
  • Go to Settings > Wi-Fi to access a Wi-Fi network.

 

Background Activity. This indicates that the battery was used by the app while it was in the background — that is, while you were using another app.

  • To improve battery life, you can turn off the feature that allows apps to refresh in the background. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and set the switch to Off. THIS ONE IS HUGE!!
  • If the Mail app lists Background Activity, you can choose to fetch data manually or increase the fetch interval. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data.

 

Location and Background Location. This indicates that the app is using location services.

  • You can optimize your battery life by turning off Location Services for the app. Turn off in Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  • In Location Services, you can see each app listed with its permission setting. Apps that recently used location services have an indicator next to the on/off switch.

 

Home & Lock Screen. This indicates that the Home screen or Lock screen was displayed on your device. For example, the display was awakened by pressing the Home button or by a notification.

  • If an app frequently wakes your display with notifications, you can turn off push notifications for the app in Settings > Notifications. Tap App and set Allow Notifications to Off.