The iPhone is used for much more than communication though; it is a great entertainment tool. But the battery life can put the dampers on you using it, so if you want to get the most from your battery, you should follow these tips.
You may want to change the amount of time before your handset goes to sleep. You can change this from 1 to 3 minutes for instance by going into settings – auto lock and choose the amount of time.
If you turn off push email and check manually, you can save battery. So go to settings – mail, contact, calendar, fetch new data and choose the time.
While the animated wallpaper may look good moving under the icons, it does use up battery. This can be changed by going into dynamic background in the wallpaper and backgrounds menu.
Refreshing apps in the background ensures they are always up to date. However if you want to get the most out of your battery you will need to turn this off.
If you have slow data speeds you can put your device into airplane mode. This shuts off the data transfers and it will use less power.
The iPhone is good at multi-tasking but this means that you often have apps open that you no longer are using. You can close these by double tapping on the home button and swiping away the ones you are not using.
Don’t be tempted to keep checking how much battery you have left as this turns on the display. Playing games, browsing the web and watching movies uses up a lot battery so bear this in mind when wondering where the battery went.
Turn off show battery life as a percentage and you can save battery. To do this head into settings – general and usage.
Cellular phone networks use a lot of the battery for fast data speed and higher quality calls. However if your phone keeps looking for hotspots to connect to it will use up the battery.
If you are not using maps you could turn off GPS on your device and this helps to save the battery level. You can also turn off Bluetooth when not using it.
There is an ambient light sensor on the handset and this helps you to change the brightness of the display based on how much light there is. Head into settings – brightness and wallpaper and turn on the auto brightness.
