Five ways to improve your iPhone’s battery life
It’s clear that smartphoneshave revolutionised the way we
live. We’re only ever a few clicks away from the latest news or discovering
what’s happening in our friends’ lives, but all this increased connectivity
comes at a cost: low-battery anxiety.
Research has shown that an astonishing 90% of us feel
anxious when our smartphone’s battery drops below 20% (considering how anxious many of our clients are as a result of them needing iPhone data recovery services, we're not surprised) so, with this in mind, Fields Data Recovery
thought we’d share our top five tips for extending your iPhone’s battery life.
Don’t worry Android fans, we’ll be writing a piece for you shortly.
1. Close your apps
Are you one of those people that opens an app and, when you’re
done with it, just minimises it and leaves it open in the background? If you’re
not sure what we mean, it’s a pretty safe bet that you are.
To close any apps you don’t need permanently open, simply
double tap your home button and swipe up on them. Once they’re closed, they won’t
be updating in the background and this will have a positive effect on your
battery’s life span.
2. Turn off Location Services
This is a feature that I, for one, have rarely found useful.
I know the city I live in well and therefore know where to eat, what offers are
available etc. The plan to push notifications with new offers from retailers
has never really taken off either so, in my eyes, Location Services is just an
unnecessary drain on battery life. Plus, considering recent concerns regarding
privacy and how our data’s used, do you really want to provide one of the world’s
other tech giants with the opportunity to track your every move? Didn’t think
so!
3. Turn down your screen’s brightness
Yes, we know that the bright and brilliant display is one of
the iPhone’s best features but keeping the brightness turned up is going to be
a significant drain on your battery.
Instead, if you can see the screen and what you’re doing,
accept that it’s bright enough. Turning on auto-brightness will even take care
of this for you.
4. Turn off Bluetooth
Be honest, how often do you connect your phone to another
device using Bluetooth other than when you’re in your car or, maybe, to a
speaker when you’re at home? Rarely, we bet.
When it’s on, though, your phone is constantly looking for
other devices it can connect to, unnecessarily draining your battery’s juice in
the process. If you know you’re not going to be connecting your phone to a
device via Bluetooth which, let’s be honest, should be most of the time, then
just turn this feature off.
5. Use Airplane Mode
If you’re struggling to find any kind of signal, you can
save precious battery life by switching on Airplane Mode. Trust us, when your
phone’s desperately looking for a signal, your battery will drain rapidly so
this will make a big, big difference.