Battery life has always been a weak point of the iPhones and iPads although every time Apple updates the iOS operating system it claims to have optimized energy consumption. Although this is true the problem is the use of heavier and heavier applications, which continuously run and consume energy.
Fortunately, with the latest versions of iOS, Apple has provided all the necessary tools to monitor battery consumption, on how to manage the apps that remain in memory (consuming too much energy) and how to best manage energy savings when necessary.
Let's find out together how to optimize the battery on the iPhone if it lasts too little (for example we don't even arrive in the evening with a charge).
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1) Battery management and control
The battery management menu of the iPhone and iPad we can find it in the Settings menu and allows you to see exactly the energy consumption of the applications, so you know how much they affect the battery life.
Once the Settings -> Battery menu is open, we select Last 24 hours or Last 10 days to see the trend of energy consumption.
The graphs show the trend of the battery level in comparison with the activity carried out, the time of active screen and of screen off.
Scrolling in this menu we will also find Battery use per app, which will show you the specific battery consumption for each app; by looking at these graphs and apps with higher energy consumption, we can choose which ones to uninstall and remove if we don't use them often.
For these apps, you can also decide not to leave them running in the background all the time.
It is also very convenient and useful to view the percentage of battery charge next to the icon at the top.
To activate this item, go to Settings -> Battery and enable Battery Percentage .
2) Background app management
If we have seen in the battery menu of the apps that consume too much battery but we cannot remove them we can optimize the battery by removing the heavy apps from running in the background.
To do this we go to Settings> General> Update app in the background and remove the check mark from the apps that we do not want to be always active in memory to update the data.
Apps we don't use now will no longer load into memory and will not consume data and CPU until we bring them back to the front.
Be careful not to block apps that display notifications, such as those for social networks or chats such as WhatsApp or Telegram: the risk of not receiving more messages when we leave the app is high.
To remove the apps left in memory, we can also open the app manager and swipe towards each other on the individual apps, so as to permanently close them.
To activate the app manager just double-tap quickly on the Home button (if we have an iPhone X or later without a Home button, just swipe upwards in the center of the screen).
3) Energy saving management
To extend the battery life (especially if we are with a percentage at risk), we can activate the automatic energy saving mode .
When the battery charge of an iPhone drops below 20%, iOS will ask whether to activate the low power mode and the battery indicator will turn yellow.
In this mode, automatic email recovery and background updates from apps will be disabled; the processor will also be used with reduced power, greatly lowering the overall performance of the iPhone or iPad but dramatically increasing the battery life.
This mode can be activated and deactivated manually by going to the Settings -> Battery menu and enabling (or disabling) the button next to the Energy saving item.
Alternatively we can add the energy saving button in the Control Center (can be called up with a swipe upwards from the bottom edge) by going to the Settings menu -> Control Center -> Customize controls and activating the Energy Saving button.
Now we use the control center to decide whether to activate or deactivate energy saving according to use and needs.
4) Other useful tips to optimize battery
In this section we have collected other useful tips to optimize the iPhone battery, so that you can arrive in the evening without problems even with a device with 2 or more years on your shoulders.
Below is a list of useful tips to apply:
- We decrease the brightness of the screen: unless we are in direct sunlight, we can obtain a good readability of the screen by setting a brightness value equal to or less than 50%.
To do this we can use the brightness bar in the control center or go to Settings -> Screen and brightness .
- Decrease the screen lock time : after a few minutes without doing anything on the iPhone, the screen turns off and the device goes to lock.
We can reduce the waiting time for the block (setting 30 seconds or 1 minute) by going to Settings -> Screen and brightness -> Automatic block .
- We always put the iPhone on charge as soon as it drops below 20% : to increase the battery life and prevent it from losing its maximum capacity, we never bring it to 0% but we put it on charge as much as possible, even if we have lost little charge (better to charge it immediately to 80% rather than wait for it to reach 20%).
In this way we can cover the whole day without problems and the iPhone battery will always be in excellent health.
To learn more about the battery health of an iPhone, it can be really useful to check the health of the iPhone battery with an app like Battery Life, described in detail in the guide we showed you above.
