How to Extend Your IPhone’s Battery Life With IOS 11
IPhone batteries are one of those things that no matter how long they last, they won’t last. There is even an entire industry built around selling backup batteries for our smartphones and tablets to keep them running after the battery runs out.
While you really can’t prevent the fact that your phone will eventually run out of battery power, if you know you’re going to be away from power for a while (or that’s always the case for you), then there are a few tweaks. which you can change on your phone to ensure that you get the job done for as long as possible.
If you’ve recently upgraded to iOS 11 and have experienced a huge drain on your phone or tablet battery, here are a few things you can do to fix the problem:
See what is draining your battery
As the poet G.I. Joe: Knowledge is half the battle. One of your best tools against low battery power is your iPhone’s battery menu. To get there, go to your phone’s settings menu (that gear icon) and then select Battery from the list. There you can see which apps have used your battery in the last 24 hours, as well as which have used your battery in the last week.
The apps are organized so that the biggest criminals are at the top. The idea here is that if you see something is using a ton of battery power, you might want to limit the usage time of that time when you want to save energy, or you might want to disable a feature like location sharing for that app. so that it doesn’t cause so much harm.
Adjust screen settings
I can almost guarantee that the display is one of the biggest discharges of your battery. The display on iPhone and iPad is beautiful and bright, and it takes a lot of battery power to get that brightness.
If you want to control things on the fly, you can go to the Control Center and adjust the screen brightness.
In general, it is recommended to turn on auto brightness on your phone. This feature will make your phone automatically adapt to the lighting around it. So, when you sit in bed at night, you don’t waste a ton of battery to power a bright screen that you would rather be dim anyway.
To access this menu, go to the Settings menu, then select General, then Accessibility, and then Display Placement. There is also an invert colors option in that menu, which I find to be a great feature that can be turned on and off (notably the new smart color inversion option), with most of the white on your phone being replaced with black, greatly reducing the amount of juice needed. to display things.
It might also be a good idea to tweak your phone lock speed. Since this display uses so much power, you don’t want your battery to drain just because you forgot to lock your phone.
To adjust this, go to Settings, then Display & Brightness, and then Auto-Lock. After that, I would recommend setting your phone to lock after 30 seconds. 30 seconds is a surprisingly long time not to touch your phone, so you probably want to lock it anyway, and it can make a huge difference how much battery you use throughout the day.
Low power mode
Hence the simple solution is to enable low power mode. This will automatically set auto-lock for 30 seconds, and will also reduce or disable a number of other features, including background app refresh, automatic downloads, hey, Siri, and some visuals.
Your phone will automatically prompt you to use this mode when the battery level drops below 20%. You may decide to take this step earlier by going to Settings and then Battery. You can also ask Siri to turn on low power mode for you.
While hibernation is a good gimmick, you can simply turn off some of these things individually:
Hey Siri
I don’t know of a single person who would actually say “Hey Siri” to interact with Siri. If that’s not what you plan to do, you can turn off this feature by going to Settings, then Siri & Search, and then turn off Listen for Hey Siri. You can still use Siri, but you just won’t be able to activate it by just saying hello. Consequently, your phone won’t listen to you all the time, which I personally don’t want, even if it wasn’t a big drain on the battery.
Receiving email
You can turn off receiving email individually by going to Settings, then Accounts & Passwords, and then Get New Data. When you do this, your phone will not always look for new email, instead it will only look for new messages when you open the app.
Background applications
The same can be done with applications. Go to Settings, then General, then Background App Refresh to limit the number of apps that can be updated in the background on your phone. You can turn off this feature entirely so that nothing gets updated, or customize what you allow for each app.
Location
Your phone needs a good battery to track your location. Go to Settings, then Privacy, and then Location Services to disable this feature entirely or restrict certain apps that may have access to your location information. You probably want to keep it on (location tracking is actually very useful for everything from maps to Yelp), but you can restrict apps so that they can only track your location while they’re open rather than all the time.