How to Fix iPhone Battery Drain problem?
Before updating my iPhone5S to iOS8, I never faced Battery drain problem so significantly. Before making below mentioned changes, every morning when I woke up, my iPhone was dead, and I had to recharge it. None the less, when I’m out, I had to carry an extra battery-pack or recharge my phone using my car USB charger. So, if you are also one of those iPhone users who is tired of iPhone5 battery draining problem, follow all the below mentioned tricks and you will not complain about battery issues again.1. Fix your brightness setting.
One of the biggest culprits of iPhone
battery drain is your screen brightness. Make use of your phone’s
ambient light sensor and put it on Auto-Brightness. It will
automatically adjust your screen’s brightness levels based on light
around it. You can also adjust this yourself using the slider to adjust
brightness.
2. Disable spotlight search.
Spotlight Search can be handy when you need
to find something on your phone, but it can also drain battery by
constantly updating its search index. Save battery and turn Spotlight
Search off by unchecking all data types it can search for under
Settings.
3. Don’t wait for auto-lock.
Get in the habit of locking your phone yourself after every use. Any minute that you leave the phone’s screen on adds to battery drain. Checked the time? Lock it yourself and don’t wait for auto-lock. You can also shorten the time to auto-lock by adjusting it under Settings.
Get in the habit of locking your phone yourself after every use. Any minute that you leave the phone’s screen on adds to battery drain. Checked the time? Lock it yourself and don’t wait for auto-lock. You can also shorten the time to auto-lock by adjusting it under Settings.
4. Limit notifications.
Every time your iPhone receives
notifications, it wakes up your phone and whichever app the notification
was for responds, thereby using up battery. You can limit notifications
to only the most important you need by going to the Privacy section
under Settings. Do Not Disturb is also a great way to turn off the least
important notifications quickly.
5. Turn off connectivity settings when not in use.
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G/4G or LTE all use up
battery whenever they’re turned on, even while you’re not using them.
Unless you really, absolutely need to be constantly connected, disable
these settings to conserve battery. Though bluetooth consume very little
battery, but again if you are not using it, you can quickly disable it
and enable it when require.
6. Disable location services.
Location services are useful, especially
for the Find My iPhone app, but leaving it turned on for all apps can
drain battery life. Instead of leaving it turned on for all apps, you
can select which app should use location services under the Privacy
section in Settings. Keep a note that you don’t like to disable location
services specially when you are travelling, as if you misplace your
iPhone, you can use find my iPhone service to locate your phone.
7. Turn off Parallax and dynamic backgrounds.
iOS 7 recently introduced Parallax and dynamic backgrounds, which are pretty but use up battery life. The advanced motion and 3D effects are cool looking but do not add much functionality to your phone. Instead, disable Parallax by looking under Accessibility in the General section of Settings. Switch back to standard wallpapers. They may not be as fun, but they’ll help you improve your iPhone’s battery life.
iOS 7 recently introduced Parallax and dynamic backgrounds, which are pretty but use up battery life. The advanced motion and 3D effects are cool looking but do not add much functionality to your phone. Instead, disable Parallax by looking under Accessibility in the General section of Settings. Switch back to standard wallpapers. They may not be as fun, but they’ll help you improve your iPhone’s battery life.
8. Don’t push email, fetch less often.
Push email means that your mail app will listen for incoming mail and “push” it out to your phone as soon as it arrives. This can be quite the battery drain, so if you’re not really waiting for an important email to arrive it may be better to fetch your email every hour or so instead. You can also just disable that altogether and just manually fetch your mail.
Push email means that your mail app will listen for incoming mail and “push” it out to your phone as soon as it arrives. This can be quite the battery drain, so if you’re not really waiting for an important email to arrive it may be better to fetch your email every hour or so instead. You can also just disable that altogether and just manually fetch your mail.
9. Stop apps from auto-updating.
iOS 7 now automatically updates apps for you as soon as new versions are released. Again, this can drain your battery. Instead, choose when to update your apps by going to the Updates settings in iTunes and App Store under settings.
iOS 7 now automatically updates apps for you as soon as new versions are released. Again, this can drain your battery. Instead, choose when to update your apps by going to the Updates settings in iTunes and App Store under settings.
10. Buy an extended battery pack
If you’d rather lose battery life than turn off services that are essential to you, maybe it’s time to invest in an external battery instead. There are a lot of extended life batteries from different brands, just pick the one that suits you best. Mophie juice pack is what I recommend and buy the one with more Mah. I will make a list of best battery pack soon.
If you are constantly getting issue with battery draining issue, Download this new app call Normal from app store, as it will show you which apps are using maximum battery on your iPhone. Interestingly it also shows if any of your cydia apps is consuming lots of battery.
You might say that turning off all of these things is like disabling your iPhone’s “smartphone” capability, but the trick is fine-tuning all the services and apps you need so that you use battery life on just the essentials.
If you’d rather lose battery life than turn off services that are essential to you, maybe it’s time to invest in an external battery instead. There are a lot of extended life batteries from different brands, just pick the one that suits you best. Mophie juice pack is what I recommend and buy the one with more Mah. I will make a list of best battery pack soon.
If you are constantly getting issue with battery draining issue, Download this new app call Normal from app store, as it will show you which apps are using maximum battery on your iPhone. Interestingly it also shows if any of your cydia apps is consuming lots of battery.
You might say that turning off all of these things is like disabling your iPhone’s “smartphone” capability, but the trick is fine-tuning all the services and apps you need so that you use battery life on just the essentials.
