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Battery always low? Three ways to massively extend your iPhone's life - and why closing apps could be making the problem WORSE
Battery drainage can be a hindrance but there are some fail-safe steps iPhone users can take to prolong their device’s daily life.
People may not know that although using your iPhone does deplete the battery, more often than not it's the features running in the background that are doing more harm than good.
The advice comes as Apple has received criticism for its lithium-ion batteries which naturally degrade over time, reducing the charge a phone can hold to 80 percent.
Apple has received criticism for its lithium-ion batteries which naturally degrade over time, reducing the charge a phone can hold to 80 percent
Receiving notifications drains your battery by causing your phone display to light up
These three iPhone hacks can extend your phone’s battery prowess by up to 50 percent but if you find that they still aren’t working, it might be time to take your device to Apple and test the device and battery for power-related problems.
1. Reduce notifications on your backlight display
Receiving notifications throughout the day can cause your battery to drop because they light up your iPhone display each time they come through.
Depending on how many notifications you receive across text messages, phone calls and apps throughout the day can determine how quickly your battery levels decrease.
Additionally, if you have your sound turned on, these vocal alerts also use power to inform you that a notification has come through.
To disable unnecessary notices, go to the notification section under ‘settings’ and toggle ‘off’ the alerts for apps that you don’t use regularly.
Keeping your location on in the background can drain your phone's battery at a faster rate
2. Disable location services
Although you might be used to keeping your Bumble location services or Google Maps on all the time, this could actually be contributing to your iPhone’s drop in power.
This is because your GPS hardware requires more battery to run and its impact can often depend on the strength of the signal and the location’s accuracy.
For example, if you’re using Google Maps to share your location with someone else, the app is likely to be accurate, causing more drainage on your battery.
It’s therefore advised to turn off your location when you’re not using it by heading to the privacy and security section in settings and clicking on ‘location services’ where you can turn the feature off.
Keeping apps open can actually preserve your iPhone's battery. Closing out of apps will cause your phone to use more battery because it will need to re-load the data that accompanies the app
3. Stop closing out of apps
A common misconception is that keeping your apps running in the background will drain the battery, prompting many users to swipe up and close out of any open pages.
However, closing and re-opening apps use up more battery than just leaving them running.
This is because launching an app requires the phone to use a burst of energy to re-load the apps - much like turning the heat or AC off and on in your home.
The better option is to remove unused apps and regularly delete large files from your phone.
How to stop apps from secretly draining your iPhone’s battery
Kewin Charron from phone repair company Back Market (Back Market)
Certain apps could be draining the battery of your iPhone - and tracking these down can help your cellphone last longer.
Phone repair expert Kewin Charron, from tech repair company Back Market, told DailyMail.com that iOS makes it easy to hunt down high-drain apps.
Charron said, “The first step is to understand which apps consume the most battery. From here, users can start to prioritise the apps they use regularly and purge any that are taking up unnecessary space.”
Certain apps - like streaming video or graphic-intensive games - are always going to use a fair bit of power, Charron said, but sometimes fairly simple apps can be draining your battery, and you should track these down and disable them.
To find your phone’s battery usage list, on iOS devices, go to Settings > Battery and look for a list of apps along with the percentage of battery usage for each over the past seven days.
Some apps may run in the background even when you're not actively using them. This drains the battery causing you to charge your phone more often.
Over time, this can actually reduce the lifespan of your phone.
To combat this, look for apps which are very active in the background, and deactivate ‘background app refresh’ for each ones.
On iOS, you can selectively enable or disable background app refresh for specific apps in settings to reduce background activity.
To do this, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh, and then select Off on individual apps as required.