How to increase iPhone battery life
The battery of your “melafonino” is almost completely empty, at the moment you have no way to recharge the device but you would still want to avoid that in a few hours it goes out. I understand you, bad situation. Know, however, that this is very feasible. How to increase iPhone battery life you just need to take advantage of the special tricks that I have indicated to indicate this with my article dedicated to the subject. If you are therefore really interested in the matter, place yourself very comfortable, grab your iDevice and read the instructions on what to do that you find below. You’ll see, you will not regret it.
I immediately anticipate that what you will have to do is essentially going to disable all the features that determine the excessive downloading of the device. Said in even shorter terms, to make the iPhone last longer in these circumstances, in particular, just disable everything that is not necessary to ensure the basic operation of the device for some time. There is nothing particularly complex to do, you do not have to worry about. Moreover, it is practically practicable on all the iPhone models, old and new. Fantastic, is not it?
Keep in mind, however, that in the event that despite the implementation of my instructions should not succeed in your intent, the fault may be attributable to a deterioration in the hardware level of the battery. To be sure of this, you can take advantage of a special feature included in iOS and possibly replace the battery. However, you will find everything explained at the end of this guide. Enjoy the reading!
Straight to increase the battery life of the iPhone
As I said at the beginning of the guide, to increase the battery life of your iPhone you have to do is to put into practice a few simple tips thanks to which you can exclude those criticalities that do not allow you to arrive up to the evening with the mobile phone. Find everything in detail below. I can not promise miracles but certainly you should be able to bring home a good result.
Reduce screen brightness and disable automatic adjustment
How to increase iPhone battery life
The first thing to do to increase the battery life of the iPhone is to go to reduce the brightness of the screen. As easily deductible, a particularly lighted display tends to consume more battery than it should. So if you are willing to sacrifice a little ‘clarity of the screen in favor of a higher percentage of the battery charge proceed as follows.
Call up the Control Center by swiping from the bottom to the top of the screen and use the appropriate adjustment bar (the one marked by the single sun) going to set a degree of brightness equal to 30-40%. If you are using an iPhone X, to call up the control center you must swipe from top to bottom from the top right corner of the display.
In addition to what I have just mentioned, you can reduce the brightness of the screen of your iPhone by adjusting the iOS settings. To do so, presses the icon with the gear that is in the home screen, select the item Screen and brightness and intervene on the adjustment bar that is located under the item Brightness.
If then on your device the automatic brightness adjustment is enabled, remember to deactivate the function in question so that the changes above are not vain.
To do so, go to Settings (the gear icon that is in the home screen), go to General in the screen that appears, then Accessibility, presses on Screen adjustment and move the lever that is next to the item Brightness automatic.
Turn off Wi-Fi, data connection and Bluetooth
How to increase iPhone battery life
The second thing to do to make the iPhone last longer is to disable Wi-Fi when it is not needed. You ask me how to do it? I’ll tell you right away: go to the Settings section of iOS, step on the wording Wi-Fi and turn OFF the switch you find in correspondence of the Wi-Fi entry on the next screen. Done!
The third thing to do is to disable the 3G / 4G connection and Bluetooth. For what concerns the data connection, always go in the settings of your iPhone, press on the Mobile phone and turn OFF the switch that you find in the words Mobile data in the next screen.
You can also do so by calling the Control Center with a swipe from bottom to top or at the top right corner down on iPhone X and pressing the button with the antenna that you find in the box on the top left so such that from colorful becomes gray.
To turn off the Bluetooth instead, always go into Settings, presses on the wording Bluetooth attached to the screen displayed and turn OFF the lever that is next to the Bluetooth voice. That’s all.
Note: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can also be disabled from the Control Center but in doing so the connections will not be disabled completely but will only be temporarily paused, as indicated by Apple itself in its support page dedicated to the topic. As a result, they will still continue to consume precious battery.
Turn off app localization and background updates
How to increase iPhone battery life
Another operation that can be very convenient in order to increase the battery life of the iPhone is to disable the localization and updating of applications in the background, at least those that tend to drastically reduce the battery power and that at the moment their use is not really necessary.
To disable the location services, go to the Settings section of iOS, press on Privacy and then stop on Localization. Then press the icon of the application for which you want to intervene and choose whether to completely disable the location services for the app by selecting Never or whether to allow the application to detect your geographical location only when it is running in the foreground choosing While using the app (if available).
I then point out that by going to Settings> Privacy> Localization> System Services you can enable or disable the location services for some system features and adjust everything based on what are your actual needs. If you wish, you can also completely disable the use of the location services by moving the lever located at the Location in the Location screen to OFF.
To deactivate the update of the applications in the background, always go in the settings of iOS, click on General, then Update app in the background from the menu that opens and moves to the OFF lever next to the name of the app for which you want to intervene .
You can also generally block the application update function in the background by going to Settings> General> Update app in the background, pressing the Update app in the background that is at the top of the screen and selecting No to completely disable the function or Wi-Fi to limit the thing to the use of the wireless network only.
Disable “Raise to activate”
How to increase iPhone battery life
Are you using iPhone SE, 6S, 6S Plus and higher and your device is updated to at least iOS 10? Then you will surely notice that you can take advantage of the function called “Raise to activate” which, as the name implies, allows you to “wake up” the screen of the device in standby simply by lifting the phone. The thing is certainly very convenient but considering that the aforementioned function comes into action even when the device is lifted for other reasons it is easy to deduce how this can lead to a waste of battery power.
To solve the problem and thus to disable the function, go to the Settings section of iOS, select Screen and brightness and turn OFF the switch that you frown at the word Raise to activate.
Use the “Energy saving” function
How to increase iPhone battery life
Another thing that I strongly suggest you to do is to take advantage of the “Energy Saving” feature including iOS that allows you to temporarily buffer battery consumption by disabling or otherwise limiting the sending and receiving of emails, the “Hey Siri” feature, the ‘background app update and some dynamic effects.
The aforementioned functionality is proposed by iOS automatically when 20% of the battery charge is reached, but you can also enable it by hand at any time by accessing the Settings section of the iPhone, tapping the words Battery and spitting ON the lever at the item Energy saving.
The activation and deactivation of the aforementioned functionality can also be managed by the Control Center, recalling it with a swipe from bottom to top or, in the iPhone X case, from top to bottom in the upper right corner of the screen and then pressing the button with the battery in such a way that it becomes colored from gray.
How to increase iPhone battery life – What is not working
How to increase iPhone battery life
In the previous lines we have seen how to increase the battery life of the iPhone. In addition to the aforementioned indications, in the network often read straight about this possibility but they are not properly founded and that they do nothing but go to harm the performance of the device. In particular, I refer to the practice of closing open applications by hand and to disable push notifications.
More specifically, the manual operation of closing applications – something that can be done by calling the menu of multitasking – should be avoided because when you close an application in a forced manner, this is deleted from the iPhone’s RAM thus forcing the device to fully recharge it (and therefore to consume unnecessarily more energy) at its next start.
For what concerns the deactivation of push notifications, the thing has no particular contraindications on battery life but its real effectiveness is decidedly limited. Application notifications do not consume a lot of energy, so to get significant results you should find yourself in a situation where dozens and dozens of apps send useless notifications constantly.
How to increase iPhone battery life – Check the “health status” of the battery
How to increase iPhone battery life
Did you put the instructions I provided in the previous lines into practice, but you still could not increase the battery life of your iPhone? So I invite you to evaluate the fact that it could be due to hardware problems. In other words: the battery of your iPhone could have undergone an excessive deterioration.
To verify that this is actually the way you can use the function called “Battery Status”, included in iOS starting from version 11.3 of the Apple mobile operating system. To use it, go to the Settings icon in the iPhone home screen, select the Battery item in the screen that appears and choose Battery Status.
In the next screen you will then be shown all the info about the maximum battery capacity of your iPhone. If the maximum battery capacity is less than 80%, then you should consider replacing it.
If then on your iPhone is installed a version of iOS prior to 11.3, to check the status of your battery you can use the Battery Life application, free and extremely intuitive. To use it, download it from the App Store, start it and in the main screen of the same you will find the percentage of wear of your battery. If the percentage is less than 80% the same considerations apply as above.
How to increase iPhone battery life – Replace the battery
How to increase iPhone battery life
If you put the above instructions into practice, do you realize that the level of battery wear of your iPhone is a bit too much, so why would you like to replace it so as not to have more problems charging on your device? Then you do not have to do is bring your iDevice in an Apple center and ask the employees to carry out the repair.
If you do not know where the nearest Apple Store is located in your area, visit this web page where you can find the complete list of Apple centers in Italy and their addresses.
Alternatively, you can replace the iPhone battery with your own hands, putting into practice the directions on what to do that I provided to provide you with my article on how to change iPhone battery.
In this second case, however, keep in mind the fact that you do not feel very sure about what to do, if you do not have a good technical preparation and especially if you do not have all the necessary equipment and are not willing to invalidate the warranty in Be of your iPhone, I strongly suggest you leave it alone. Any false steps could in fact compromise the general operation of the device irremediably. Forewarned is forearmed!