Your iPhone battery might seem unpredictable and drain quickly, leaving you constantly looking for a charger. But the problem might not be with your phone or its battery itself. Instead, certain settings on your device could be causing the fast battery drain.
Apps that use a lot of resources, like Facebook, combined with power-draining settings, can seriously impact your phone’s battery life. Fortunately, you can make a difference by adjusting these five settings before they cause any lasting damage to your battery.
1. Location Services:
Location Services helps apps like maps work properly, but they can drain your battery if it’s left on for all apps. It’s also something to consider for privacy. In order to fix it, follow these steps:
- Open Settings.
- Go to Privacy & Security.
- Tap Location Services.
- Toggle off Location Services or disable it for specific apps.
2. Push Email:
If you don’t need instant email updates, turning off Push Email (or Fetch) can save battery. To fix this, follow these steps:
- Open Settings.
- Tap Mail.
- Select Accounts.
- Tap Fetch New Data.
- Choose a longer fetch interval, like every 30 minutes, if you check email less often.
3. Screen Brightness
A bright screen makes your phone easier to read, but it also drains your battery faster. To save power, reduce your screen brightness and turn on Auto-Brightness, which adjusts the screen based on the surrounding light.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Open Settings.
- Tap Display & Brightness.
- Lower the Brightness slider.
- To enable Auto-Brightness, go to Settings > Accessibility and turn it on.
4. Background App Refresh
If you don’t mind waiting a few extra seconds for apps to load, turning off Background App Refresh can save battery. This setting allows apps to refresh content in the background, which uses up power.
To turn it off:
- Open Settings.
- Tap General.
- Select Background App Refresh.
- Turn off Background App Refresh.
5. Notifications
Constant notifications for emails or social media updates not only drain your battery but are also very distracting. If you are not someone who checks every notification and every time your phone beeps, you can turn off unnecessary notifications to save battery and reduce distractions.
Here’s how to manage them:
- Open Settings.
- Tap Notifications.
- Select the apps you want to disable notifications for.
- Turn off notifications for those apps.
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