While it's always exciting to update the iPhone to a new version of the iOS system, they can sometimes bring old and new problems, including some very annoying battery life issues.
Any iPhone we have, be it an iPhone 5S, a 6, 6S, or 7, Plus or even the newest iPhone, the battery life can be shorter or longer depending on how some options are set.
Referring to the most recent version today, iOS 11, let's see here what are the options to configure to save battery on the iPhone to increase the duration as much as possible, without obviously sacrificing the main functions of the smartphone.
1) Check which apps drain the battery
First of all you can open the power saving options in Settings -> Battery to check which apps have used the most energy and discharged the battery first.
Once discovered the most used apps we can remove them or make sure that their use is optimized as we will see in the next points.
2) Check the location services
The use made by the installed apps of the iPhone's location services is among the primary culprits for battery life problems.
Except for a few exceptions, it is important to make sure that no app uses location services if it is not in use.
Then go to Settings> Privacy> Location to see exactly which applications are set up to access the location of the device.
For each app, touch and set the option " if in use " or even Never .
The only app that can be configured to use " Always " location is Weather.
3) Set low brightness
Unless special needs and if you are not always in the sun, the brightness of the iPhone should be configured as low as possible, to avoid unnecessary battery consumption.
The brightness on the iPhone can be changed quickly from the Control Center.
In this regard, it is worth turning off automatic brightness by going to Settings> General> Accessibility> Screen Adjustments> Automatic brightness .
Going to Settings> Screen and brightness, activate the automatic night brightness ( Night Shift ), which in addition to saving energy is also less tiring for the eyes.
4) Deactivate functions if we do not use them
If we don't use any of these iPhone features, we can turn them off to save some battery:
- HandOff and Airdrop, two connection and resource sharing functions, can be deactivated in Settings> General .
- iMessage, Facetime, Game Center to be deactivated in Settings.
- Apple Music, to be deactivated in Settings> Music .
- Raise to activate, the function that turns on the screen when you take the iPhone in hand, to be deactivated in iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 by going to Settings> Screen and brightness .
- Physical activity monitoring, to be deactivated in Settings> Privacy> Movement and fitness .
- Hey Siri, to be deactivated in Settings> Siri
- iCloud keychain, to be deactivated in Settings> Accounts> iCloud
5) Energy saving mode at your fingertips .
On iPhone, in Settings -> Battery, you can activate the energy saving mode, designed to limit unnecessary services to the system and save battery.
In this mode, for example, emails may not arrive in real time.
One of the best tricks of iOS 11 on the iPhone is to quickly activate the battery saver from the Control Center which appears by swiping your finger on the screen from the bottom to the top.
Then go to Settings> Control Center> Customize Controls to add the button that activates and deactivates energy saving.
6) Disable background apps
The iPhone battery is directly affected by all the apps that send notifications and remain constantly active and ready to receive data.
Then go to Settings> General> Update App in the background and disable all the applications except the Email one (if you use Gmail or others), except Google Photos if you make automatic backups, except the message apps like Whatsapp and then the Weather.
All the others, including Facebook or other social networks, should be kept disabled.
7) Do a hard reset
Hard reset is the iPhone restart procedure that solves any problem, to be used every now and then if the apps seem slow and if the battery drains too quickly even if nothing is done.
The procedure is not a real reset and does not delete apps and personal data, it is more of a forced restart that resets some internal parameters of the iOS system.
To do a hard reset, you must press and hold the Turn off screen and Home keys together.
8) Calibrate the battery
To calibrate the battery, wait for the charge to run out completely, then put the iPhone off charging up to 100%, leave it for a few more hours, disconnect it and then turn the iPhone back on in hard reset mode, holding down together Home button and power button making the Apple logo appear on the screen.
I would say not to go further with the changes of options, also considering that some problems that lead to discharging the battery (or seeing a wrong percentage) of the iPhone can be caused by system bugs that we can certainly not solve alone.
Any iPhone we have, be it an iPhone 5S, a 6, 6S, or 7, Plus or even the newest iPhone, the battery life can be shorter or longer depending on how some options are set.
Referring to the most recent version today, iOS 11, let's see here what are the options to configure to save battery on the iPhone to increase the duration as much as possible, without obviously sacrificing the main functions of the smartphone.
1) Check which apps drain the battery
First of all you can open the power saving options in Settings -> Battery to check which apps have used the most energy and discharged the battery first.
Once discovered the most used apps we can remove them or make sure that their use is optimized as we will see in the next points.
2) Check the location services
The use made by the installed apps of the iPhone's location services is among the primary culprits for battery life problems.
Except for a few exceptions, it is important to make sure that no app uses location services if it is not in use.
Then go to Settings> Privacy> Location to see exactly which applications are set up to access the location of the device.
For each app, touch and set the option " if in use " or even Never .
The only app that can be configured to use " Always " location is Weather.
3) Set low brightness
Unless special needs and if you are not always in the sun, the brightness of the iPhone should be configured as low as possible, to avoid unnecessary battery consumption.
The brightness on the iPhone can be changed quickly from the Control Center.
In this regard, it is worth turning off automatic brightness by going to Settings> General> Accessibility> Screen Adjustments> Automatic brightness .
Going to Settings> Screen and brightness, activate the automatic night brightness ( Night Shift ), which in addition to saving energy is also less tiring for the eyes.
4) Deactivate functions if we do not use them
If we don't use any of these iPhone features, we can turn them off to save some battery:
- HandOff and Airdrop, two connection and resource sharing functions, can be deactivated in Settings> General .
- iMessage, Facetime, Game Center to be deactivated in Settings.
- Apple Music, to be deactivated in Settings> Music .
- Raise to activate, the function that turns on the screen when you take the iPhone in hand, to be deactivated in iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 by going to Settings> Screen and brightness .
- Physical activity monitoring, to be deactivated in Settings> Privacy> Movement and fitness .
- Hey Siri, to be deactivated in Settings> Siri
- iCloud keychain, to be deactivated in Settings> Accounts> iCloud
5) Energy saving mode at your fingertips .
On iPhone, in Settings -> Battery, you can activate the energy saving mode, designed to limit unnecessary services to the system and save battery.
In this mode, for example, emails may not arrive in real time.
One of the best tricks of iOS 11 on the iPhone is to quickly activate the battery saver from the Control Center which appears by swiping your finger on the screen from the bottom to the top.
Then go to Settings> Control Center> Customize Controls to add the button that activates and deactivates energy saving.
6) Disable background apps
The iPhone battery is directly affected by all the apps that send notifications and remain constantly active and ready to receive data.
Then go to Settings> General> Update App in the background and disable all the applications except the Email one (if you use Gmail or others), except Google Photos if you make automatic backups, except the message apps like Whatsapp and then the Weather.
All the others, including Facebook or other social networks, should be kept disabled.
7) Do a hard reset
Hard reset is the iPhone restart procedure that solves any problem, to be used every now and then if the apps seem slow and if the battery drains too quickly even if nothing is done.
The procedure is not a real reset and does not delete apps and personal data, it is more of a forced restart that resets some internal parameters of the iOS system.
To do a hard reset, you must press and hold the Turn off screen and Home keys together.
8) Calibrate the battery
To calibrate the battery, wait for the charge to run out completely, then put the iPhone off charging up to 100%, leave it for a few more hours, disconnect it and then turn the iPhone back on in hard reset mode, holding down together Home button and power button making the Apple logo appear on the screen.
I would say not to go further with the changes of options, also considering that some problems that lead to discharging the battery (or seeing a wrong percentage) of the iPhone can be caused by system bugs that we can certainly not solve alone.
